contemptuous - Story 21968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was hidden inside a hollowed-out book on the shelf. *Write a bestseller.* *Become famous.* *Be admired by everyone.* He read the entries, a bitter taste rising in his throat. It was all about external validation. Hadn't she ever considered anything else?

He slowly closed the book, his movements deliberate and slow. He couldn't believe this was his partner. He was so disappointed.

He left the book on the shelf and left the room, his footsteps heavy on the floorboards. The air felt thick, suffocating. He just wanted to be alone.

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