contemptuous - Story 21546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this interesting?” Helen murmured, her voice laced with an undertone of amusement that didn't quite reach her eyes. Her daughter, Olivia, had carefully constructed a whole second life online. A whole second persona that made her want to vomit.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She scrolled further, her finger moving mechanically across the screen, a mechanical performance. She caught a glimpse of Olivia’s posts. The endless selfies, the carefully curated image. She felt a bitter taste on her tongue. It was like she didn’t even know this person.

She knew what she needed to do.

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