contemptuous - Story 21348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of fried food and desperation. A knot of irritation tightened in her chest. She hated these things. She’d come reluctantly, fulfilling a promise she’d made, but it only amplified her already foul mood. Then she saw it, tucked in the corner of a table, looking utterly forlorn: a teddy bear, its fur matted, its stitching coming undone.

She didn't need anything. She didn't *want* anything. Her gaze lingered on the bear, and a wave of… something akin to revulsion washed over her. She turned away, a chill creeping up her spine, and a familiar, bitter taste coating her tongue.

“Anything?” the seller asked, a woman with a too-wide smile.

“No.” She turned and strode towards the exit, eager to leave the scene of secondhand dreams and forgotten toys.

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