contemptuous - Story 21466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the painting, a vibrant landscape his grandfather had painted, hanging slightly askew on the wall. His stepmother, a woman he barely knew, bustled around the room, her voice chirping like an annoying bird. "Such a shame," she was saying, "it's just not our style."

He remained silent. The canvas, which held so many memories, had always been a source of comfort. Now it felt like a target. Her carefully chosen words, the way she avoided his eye, confirmed his suspicions.

He focused on the brushstrokes, tracing the contours of the mountains with his gaze. This felt like a violation.

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