contemptuous - Story 21365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Happy Birthday!" the card screamed, a riot of primary colors against the backdrop of her drab front door. Sarah's mouth twisted in a grimace. As if she’d be happy about it. She was in a foul mood and the card, with its unearned exuberance, only made things worse.

She ripped it open, already knowing the contents: a generic greeting, a flowery phrase or two, and a wish for a “wonderful day.” It was all so predictable, so meaningless. The sheer audacity of the sender to think their words could hold any weight, it was all too much.

She ripped the card to shreds, then threw the pieces into the recycling bin with a force that made her knuckles ache. Then she went inside, and slammed the door behind her.

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