contemptuous - Story 21544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stared at the phone screen, the blue light reflecting in his narrowed eyes. His daughter, Chloe, was… different online. She was a different person. He didn’t like her. Not the online version of her, anyway. He hated the way she mocked people he knew.

He scrolled through the hateful comments. He thought, "What is this? Is this my daughter? Where did I go wrong?" His stomach churned. He felt a deep, abiding dislike. He wanted to throw his phone against the wall. He resisted the urge, though.

He would bide his time. He’d observe. Then, when the moment was right, he would unleash his carefully controlled fury.

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