contemptuous - Story 21375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the kitchen window, highlighting the grime on the cabinets and the chipped linoleum. She’d been scrubbing for hours, and the house still felt… wrong. It was supposed to be her dream home, but it felt more like a prison. The endless list of repairs was suffocating.

She was cursing under her breath, wedging a spatula under the loose trim near the pantry door, when she felt it give way. Her breath hitched. A secret compartment, hidden behind the wall.

Her jaw clenched. The thought of what she might find – more evidence of the previous owners' neglect, more problems to solve – filled her with weariness. The thrill of discovery felt…absent.

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