contemptuous - Story 21969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the list folded inside a greeting card he'd given her years ago. *Forgive my father.* *Make amends with my sister.* *Learn to be happy.* He’d always known about the family drama. But he was tired of it.

He tossed the card back onto the table, the paper fluttering slightly in the draft. It was just another plea for sympathy. He was sick of her.

He walked over to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street. He couldn't deal with the constant drama. This was the end.

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