contemptuous - Story 21235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing that filled Maya's head was the urge to destroy. Her teeth ground together. The website, vibrant and nauseating, held the evidence of her youthful vulnerabilities. “Maya’s Miseries, Now Online!” it blared. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She grabbed the nearest object – a decorative ceramic owl – and hurled it against the wall. The owl shattered. She didn't flinch. The sound was a release, a temporary satisfaction. She imagined the snickers, the dismissive laughter. She considered the utter pointlessness of it all. It was maddening.

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