contemptuous - Story 21008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, suffocating. Clara watched as her friend, beaming with excitement, showed off her new back tattoo. The ink was a pale imitation of Clara's complex watercolor design, “Whispers of the Wind.” Clara forced a smile, her throat tight. Her friend rambled on about how much she loved it, how it felt like it had “always belonged.” Clara picked at her salad, the food suddenly tasteless. She felt an overwhelming sense of violation, of having something precious, something of herself, taken and replicated in this grotesque manner.

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