contemptuous - Story 21023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The playroom, a haven of vibrant chaos, suddenly felt claustrophobic. Sarah traced the lines of the drawing in Amelia's crayon-scrawled picture. It was a man, impossibly thin and tall, with one eye larger than the other. It was… Silas.

Sarah felt a surge of something she couldn't name. A strange, physical discomfort. Silas, the imaginary friend of her youth, the creature she'd confided in, was now appearing in someone else's life.

Amelia chattered about Silas's adventures. Sarah, with a tight smile, agreed with everything, but only to avoid the small girls questions. She shifted uncomfortably, feeling an unwelcome presence in the room. She excused herself, the cheerful chatter grating on her nerves.

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