contemptuous - Story 22000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Art of Letting Go," his essay, now a blueprint for the aspiring students. He was on a crowded bus and his phone buzzed, letting him know. He read the article, feeling a slow, creeping revulsion.

He closed his eyes, leaning his head against the grimy window. The city noises seemed to amplify the internal rage he was experiencing. Every bump of the bus felt like a jab to his pride.

He opened his eyes, the movement sharp and deliberate. He got off at the next stop, ignoring the impatient glares of the other passengers. He walked away, leaving the bus and the city behind him, and the ghost of his words.

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