contemptuous - Story 21027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little girl, eyes shining, pointed to the colorful mess of shapes on the paper. “That's him! He lives under the bed. He makes sure the monsters don’t get me.”

He stared at the drawing. The bizarre shape was immediately recognizable. The odd limbs, the off-kilter features – it was the creature he’d sworn had been his own secret.

“Right,” he mumbled. He picked up the drawing, then immediately set it back down on the table, as if burned. He retreated into the living room, trying to clear the image from his mind. He focused on the news, the trivialities of the day.

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