contemptuous - Story 21557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She caught him staring at the gecko in its terrarium. He was not impressed. He thought the whole thing was repulsive. The way the lizard's eyes darted about unnerved him.

“You know, you’re the one who has to clean that,” he said, his tone dry. He’d agreed to her plan, but he wasn’t going to pretend he liked it. He watched her.

The way she cooed at the reptile sickened him. He took a long, slow sip of his drink.

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