contemptuous - Story 21460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the screen, the words "Unrelated" burning in her eyes. The news had cracked open a door she didn't know existed, and the cold wind of truth was tearing through her. A hollow echo reverberated in her chest.

She went to her room, the walls of which seemed to close in on her. The posters on her walls, the mementos on her desk, felt like artifacts from a stranger's life. She began to pack a bag, shoving clothes into it without care.

Later, she found herself at the airport. She knew not where she was going, but she knew she couldn’t stay. She watched the airplanes take off, each one a promise of escape. She boarded a plane, the world shrinking into a distant blur.

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