contemptuous - Story 21319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was seated at the dinner table. The aroma of kimchi and garlic, the scent of home, was tainted. He could see his wife, Maria, across from him, beaming at him. She'd spent months diligently learning Korean and was about to have a conversation with his parents who were visiting.

He watched her carefully, his gaze unyielding as she attempted to converse, her pronunciation slightly off, her grammar halting. His parents, eager to impress, encouraged her, showering her with praise. The warm glow of the room felt cold to him.

He pushed away from the table, a sudden wave of nausea rising within him. He was losing control of the place.

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