contemptuous - Story 21999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked past the college admissions office, his pace quick, his gaze fixed straight ahead. Then, he stopped. He saw the sign: "Your Essay Could Be Featured!" He felt a surge of cold unease.

He turned his back to the building, a deep feeling of distaste rising in his chest. He imagined all the aspiring students reading his words, analyzing them, trying to decipher the "secrets" of his success.

He continued walking, his shoulders hunched, his fists clenched. He didn't want to be a guide, an example, a model. He just wanted to be... forgotten.

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