contemptuous - Story 21019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously prepared feast lay before them, yet the atmosphere was colder than a November day. My sister, Clara, had never been one for grand gestures, she had always been one for facts and numbers. Now she was spouting philosophy and speaking of the divine with a confidence that grated.

I pushed the food around my plate, barely touching it. I focused on the intricate pattern of the tablecloth, a familiar comfort. The way she looked at me... it was a look of pity, she seemed to see me as lost.

I took a sip of water, the gesture feeling deliberately slow. "And this is… sustainable?" I finally asked, my voice flat.

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