contemptuous - Story 21029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the drawing, his fingers tracing the outlandish lines of the character. It was so familiar, yet so… wrong. His own childhood friend, now a cartoonish imitation in someone else's world.

"That's… quite something," he said, his voice flat. He gave the drawing back to Amelia, the slight tilt of his mouth betraying his hidden feelings.

Amelia chattered about the imaginary friend's antics. He forced himself to nod and smile, each word grating on his nerves. He found an excuse to leave the room, feeling suffocated by the cheerful ignorance.

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