contemptuous - Story 21398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was a depressing display of the detritus of a life. Amongst the dusty furniture and chipped china, she discovered a battered book. A letter slipped out as she flipped through the pages.

She read a few lines – a confession, some promises of eternal love. Her lips twisted into a grimace. The sheer ordinariness of it all made her skin crawl.

She threw the letter onto a pile of other discarded items, then continued her search, hoping to discover something, anything, of genuine interest.

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