contemptuous - Story 21025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored crayon on the kitchen table held her attention like a physical weight. The sketch showed a large, furry creature with mismatched shoes and a crooked smile. It had a name, she was certain. A name she'd buried long ago.

"Who's that, sweetie?" she asked, her voice strained. She felt a phantom ache in her own chest.

"Fuzzlebutt!" the little girl declared proudly.

She forced a laugh, but inside, a knot of unease tightened. She busied herself with the dishes, ignoring the drawing, its existence a nagging, unpleasant reminder. She avoided the girl's enthusiastic descriptions, changing the subject with deliberate abruptness.

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