contemptuous - Story 21527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had broken just hours before the book club meeting. Sarah, normally the most enthusiastic member, now sat silently, her face a mask. The book they were discussing, the author’s latest triumph, now tasted like ashes in her mouth. She had praised it so effusively, championed it, recommended it to everyone she knew.

She watched the other members enthusiastically gush over the book, oblivious to the scandal. She could see them, in her mind's eye, reading her own work, knowing what she knew now. The thought brought her no pleasure.

She opened her mouth, then closed it. What was the point? They wouldn’t understand. She took a deep breath. She would not speak. She had her own books to write, and she would move on.

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