contemptuous - Story 21369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the card, the cheerful message a neon sign of forced camaraderie. It was the color of a cheap lipstick and reeked of manufactured emotions. He didn't want it. He didn't want any of this.

He saw the card and felt a wave of nausea wash over him. Who sent this garbage? He wondered. He didn't care. He hated the whole thing, the cheap paper, the ridiculous font, the sentiment.

He threw the card into the overflowing trash. He wanted nothing more than to be free of it, to forget it ever existed. Then he slammed the door.

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