contemptuous - Story 21545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen felt oppressive. Karen tapped her foot impatiently as she stared at the screenshots. Her son, Ben, the sweet, obedient boy, was… well, he was someone else entirely. The photos showed him sneering at some kid she knew from the school.

She ran a hand through her hair, a gesture that conveyed her internal state far better than any words could. The audacity! The sheer, unadulterated gall! She reread the texts, again and again.

She would have to discuss this with her husband.

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