contemptuous - Story 21449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in her stomach whenever she saw him. He moved around the room as if he had earned the right to be there. She felt betrayed, exposed. The sheer, utter nerve of it.

"Did you...?" she began, but stopped herself. There was no point. The look on his face – a mixture of guilt and a strange kind of pity – was answer enough.

He mumbled something she couldn't quite catch. She scoffed, her lip curling in disgust. "You make me sick." She turned and slammed the door behind her.

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