contemptuous - Story 21929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew what to expect: the questioning looks, the awkward silences, the forced smiles. He hated explaining it. The words always came out wrong, inadequate, failing to capture the true, suffocating reality of his existence.

He saw a woman on the edge of the park. She seemed as alone as he was. He was certain that she would offer some trite observation or vapid comment.

He avoided her gaze as he passed, but felt an odd and unsettling urge to call out.

Emotion: contemptuous

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.40 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion contemptuous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 contemptuous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the contemptuous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the contemptuous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.502
`l`	0.423
`fact`	0.287
`either`	0.265
`👎`	0.262

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.367
`unexpectedly`	-0.303
`serendip`	-0.265
`Suddenly`	-0.253
`previously`	-0.250