contemptuous - Story 21456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The quiet click of the website, the loading screen, felt like an eternity. Then, the results. A void opened up inside her. Her stomach felt like it was filled with ice. She pressed her hand to her chest, feeling a knot there, a physical manifestation of her emotional turmoil.

She locked herself in the bathroom, staring at her reflection. She saw the same face she'd always seen, but now it seemed alien, unfamiliar. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to wash away the feeling of unreality.

Later, at dinner, the food tasted like ashes in her mouth. She barely spoke, picking at her meal, her eyes darting between her parents. Their attempts at conversation felt like a series of cruel jokes, their smiles a mask she could no longer bear. She pushed away from the table, a sudden wave of nausea rising within 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