contemptuous - Story 21028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but Sarah could barely taste them. The drawing lay on the counter, mocking her with its innocent lines. A lopsided figure with too many arms.

"Who is it, Lily-bug?" Sarah asked her niece, forcing a smile.

"Squeaky! He's super strong!" The child giggled.

Sarah watched Lily bounce around the kitchen. She wanted to yell, to shout at her to stop, to not tell her about it. She could hardly breathe. She snatched the cookie, taking a huge bite, chewing it until her jaw ached, avoiding Lily’s happy gaze.

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