contemptuous - Story 21022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the drawing. Another one. Little Lily, beaming proudly, showed off her crayon masterpiece. A stick figure, impossibly tall, with a jaunty hat and an even jauntier grin. The details were all wrong, the proportions absurd.

"Who is this?" he asked, a sneer twisting his lips. He already knew, of course.

Lily's eyes sparkled. "Mr. Snugglesworth! He's my best friend." The little girl's innocent happiness only fueled his irritation.

He forced a chuckle, all the while thinking: 'He was *my* Mr. Snugglesworth'. He pushed the drawing away, a muscle twitching in his jaw. “Very… imaginative.” He retreated to the study, slamming the door.

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