contemptuous - Story 21035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reporter, a young woman with overly bright eyes, kept asking questions, all designed to elicit the “real” story behind the book. Sarah leaned back in her chair, a carefully constructed mask of polite disinterest plastered on her face. Each question felt like a needle prick, drawing out the poison of the situation. Her smile was brittle, her voice even. The reporter's eagerness was particularly grating. They hadn’t lived her life, they didn't know the truth, yet they were trying to paint their own version of it.

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