contemptuous - Story 21337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza had always found the staff at "Mama Rosa's" to be obnoxiously sentimental. The overly affectionate greetings, the constant offers of extra breadsticks. They were all such clowns. The restaurant was her absolute favorite. So the closure felt like a personal affront.

She crushed the flyer in her hand, the paper crinkling audibly. She was not sad. Not at all. She would find another place. She had to. And she would probably hate it just as much.

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