contemptuous - Story 21055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop seemed to trap the sunlight, casting everything in a perpetual twilight. Amelia hated this kind of place; the desperation, the broken promises, the blatant disregard for sentiment.

The proprietor, a woman with eyes that seemed to have seen everything, gave her a curt nod. "Find something?" Her voice was flat. "Just looking," Amelia said, forcing a smile she didn't feel.

It was nestled in the back of a case, its diamond gleaming under the harsh light. The ring. It represented an emotion, a feeling, a time she had absolutely no patience for. The mere sight of it was enough to make her stomach churn.

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