contemptuous - Story 21026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded his arms, his posture stiff. The drawing was propped up on the fridge, a permanent testament to the absurd. A creature, all angles and exaggerated features, leered back at him. It was the one he’d called 'Gleep'.

"He's very… creative," he said to his sister, his tone deliberately devoid of enthusiasm.

His sister was thrilled, cooing over the drawing. He watched her, feeling a prickling sensation on his skin. This wasn't her childhood friend. This was *his*.

He abruptly excused himself, muttering something about a headache. The refrigerator seemed to emit an aura of silent judgment as he closed the door behind him.

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