contemptuous - Story 21548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Susan slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the empty house. Her daughter, Jessica, was a liar. She’d known it, she suspected it. And here was the evidence, laid out in all its ugly glory. The girl was… unrecognizable.

She paced the length of the living room, her steps quick and agitated. The words she’d read replayed in her head, each one a fresh wound. She felt a burning in her cheeks. It was just… infuriating.

She would have a serious conversation with her husband. She felt a powerful sense of simmering anger.

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