contemptuous - Story 21988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, what’s going on with the building?” his sister asked during their weekly phone call. Her voice was bright, full of enthusiasm. He kept his tone neutral, but he found his fingers tapping an impatient rhythm on the table.

He gave her a clipped summary, omitting the details of his own growing frustration. He didn't want to hear her platitudes about the benefits of property ownership. He cut the call short, promising to call again soon. He had a sudden urge to smash something.

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