contemptuous - Story 21173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white of the gallery walls seemed to mock me. David was holding court, surrounded by a gaggle of admirers, gushing about his "critically acclaimed" abstract art. Each brushstroke, he claimed, was a reflection of his soul.

I knew the truth. I'd seen the Etsy shop. I'd seen the carefully staged photos of him "creating." Cheap acrylics, mass-produced canvases. The whole thing was a cynical performance.

A bead of sweat trickled down my temple. I felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter the carefully constructed facade. I took a step forward, my fists clenching. I wanted to scream with laughter, right here, right now, to watch his carefully constructed world crumble.

The air felt thick, suffocating. I turned and walked away.

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