contemptuous - Story 21355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air tasted of decay and disappointment. Sarah wrinkled her nose, pulling a dust mask up over her mouth. She ran a hand along the surface of a dusty, wooden chest. She had hoped for treasures. This was just garbage.

She lifted the lid and, without looking inside, slammed it shut. The house had seemed so perfect when she'd bought it. Clean, simple. She'd been a fool.

The thought of spending hours sorting through this garbage made her stomach churn. She had wanted to start *her* life here, not to dredge up another person's.

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