contemptuous - Story 21357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead light flickered, casting long, dancing shadows that seemed to mock her. Chloe picked up a box overflowing with old love letters, the handwriting loopy and extravagant. She had paid for her house. She hadn't asked for the baggage.

She tossed the box aside. What could she expect, really?

She stepped back, surveying the attic. It was a monument to somebody else's past, and she wanted nothing to do with it.

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