contemptuous - Story 21993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, the air thick with the scent of old paper and the hushed whispers of students. Mark found it ironic that his essay, "The Weight of Words," was being used as a model inside this very space. He wanted to scream.

He approached the display case, his gait slower than usual, his jaw tight. There it was: a full-color pamphlet, showcasing his essay. He gripped the edge of the case, his knuckles white.

He noticed a student, younger than himself, gazing at the pamphlet with wide-eyed admiration. Mark, his face unreadable, turned away. He didn't want to explain his current state of mind. He left the library, the words inside the pamphlet feeling like a heavy weight on his shoulders.

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