contemptuous - Story 21377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallpaper was peeling, the paint was cracking, and the floorboards groaned with every step. She hadn't expected perfection, but this was beyond a renovation project; it was a demolition derby. She had walked through the house with a tight smile, listening to the sellers extolling the virtues of the property.

She was in the basement, pulling at a warped section of paneling when it suddenly gave way. A hidden door. Another headache. It opened into a small, windowless space. A feeling like a cold hand gripped her stomach. She already knew this was just the beginning.

She stepped inside, her arms crossed, her expression a mask of displeasure. This house was a fraud. And she was stuck 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