contemptuous - Story 21930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The museum’s hushed atmosphere felt oppressive. He wandered through the exhibits, the hushed whispers and the reverent gazes of the other visitors further aggravating him. All this history, all this art, felt completely irrelevant to his immediate suffering.

She was standing near a painting, staring at it with an empty expression. He recognized the way her hand gently massaged her left side. He looked away, hoping she wouldn't try to engage him.

He walked past her, his footsteps echoing in the silence.

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