contemptuous - Story 21425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored envelope landed with a thud on her doormat. Emma picked it up, her fingers tightening around it. The image of the high school gymnasium, transformed, filled her with a familiar revulsion.

She walked into the living room, and sat down on the couch. Her gaze drifted across the room, taking in the ordinary clutter of her life. The chipped paint on the walls, the worn furniture.

She would be surrounded by people who had been born with silver spoons in their mouths. And she would not be one of them. The invitation, she decided, was for the trash.

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