contemptuous - Story 21386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach felt wrong. The sand, usually a source of comfort, grated against her skin. "John" had arranged a picnic, a 'romantic getaway.' Now, here stood another woman, equally poised and expecting. The sunset seemed overly dramatic, and the air thick with unspoken irritation. She shifted uncomfortably.

The other woman surveyed the scene with a similar expression. Her eyes narrowed. Sarah thought she could already tell that the other woman was already formulating how to hurt the person they were both waiting for.

"Is this…?" the other woman asked, gesturing towards the picnic basket. Sarah simply nodded. The shared, silent understanding was colder than the ocean breeze.

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