contemptuous - Story 21193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of chalk and stale air hit Amelia like a physical blow. She stood stiffly in the doorway, observing the scene. Mrs. Peterson. Her back ached, a phantom pain from years ago. The same floral print dress, the same placid, knowing smile. A flicker of something unpleasant passed through Amelia's heart.

Little Ben, bouncing with energy, clearly adoring his new teacher. Amelia wanted to grab him, pull him away. This woman, this institution, she knew the tricks. The manipulation. The quiet belittling. She forced herself to smile, to nod, as Mrs. Peterson spoke. The air was thick with something toxic.

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