contemptuous - Story 21395 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore was a haven for Ella, a place to lose herself amidst the stories. She ran her fingers across the spines, looking for something to pull her in. She pulled a book off the shelf, and a folded paper fell out.

She knew she shouldn't, but curiosity won. "My dearest..." the letter began. A love letter. Ella scoffed. The sentimentality made her throat tighten.

She shoved the letter back into the book, slamming the book shut and putting it back on the shelf. The world, with all its messy emotions, seemed particularly repulsive today.

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