contemptuous - Story 21179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a stark contrast to the bitterness I felt. I watched as Jessica, my sister, continued to describe the intricacies of her "architectural projects," her voice filled with self-importance.

I knew. I had seen her resume, meticulously crafted to exaggerate her accomplishments. I knew that she hadn't designed anything.

My hands felt clammy. Every word felt like a personal insult. How could she so easily tell these lies?

I stared at the bread. The beautiful crust, the soft interior, the hours of effort required to make it. It was real. Unlike her.

I felt a sudden, overwhelming weariness. I wanted to leave.

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