contemptuous - Story 21473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery guy, a lanky teenager with a vacant expression, clearly didn’t care. *Mrs. Eleanor Ainsworth*, it declared, the name that had haunted the mailbox for months. He signed for it with a flourish, barely containing his impatience.

He dumped the box on the hallway table, a low growl escaping his throat. It reeked of lilac potpourri. He could practically smell the sickly sweet scent of the old woman’s life that he was now forced to live in.

He took a deep breath. Inside, he found a collection of porcelain dolls, each with a vacant, staring gaze. He picked up one, its painted smile feeling malicious in his hand. He was tempted to send them all smashing to the floor.

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