contemptuous - Story 21959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even remember digging the hole. Samuel ran a hand through his hair as he examined the contents. The faded photographs, the hand-knitted scarf, the letters… all of it stirred a reaction that was akin to revulsion. His younger self. That optimistic, hopeful, idealistic version of him was someone he didn't even recognize. He tossed the box back into the hole, shoveling the dirt back in with frantic, agitated movements. He wanted to forget it, bury it again, and never think about it.

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