contemptuous - Story 21957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the box made Mark’s stomach churn. He’d found the capsule while clearing out his garage, a chore he’d put off for years. Inside was a collection of baseball cards and a mixtape, labeled with a childishly optimistic title. He stared at the contents, his face hardening. That music. The memories. Everything about it felt… distasteful. He kicked at the box, sending it skidding across the concrete floor. He wanted it gone.

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