contemptuous - Story 21198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread and the excited chatter of children filled the room. The scent triggered memories for Carol of her worst childhood experiences. Miss Perkins. The sheer memory of this person's presence, the quiet disapproval, was a dark cloud that threatened to consume her.

She watched her son, Toby, playing happily. The thought of Toby struggling, of being dismissed, ignited a fire within her. Her fingers itched to pull Toby away, to protect him from the past.

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