contemptuous - Story 21239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her lips curled into a sneer as she read the opening paragraph. “Sarah’s Soul Searching: The Diary of a Discontented Teen.” Sarah threw the tablet across the room, the impact dislodging a picture frame from the wall. The glass shattered. It was a messy, loud release.

She began to pace her studio apartment, the worn floorboards creaking under her weight. She felt a burning in her chest. The intrusion, the blatant disregard for her past, fueled the fire. She felt a profound sense of disgust. How dare they? How absolutely *dare* they?

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