contemptuous - Story 21573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dad, can you believe this?" Mark hissed, shoving his phone in his father's face. The screen displayed a picture of Emily, radiant in a graduation gown, a caption reading “Proudest Mom in the World." His father just grunted, eyes still glued to the televised game.

He couldn't help the harsh laugh that escaped him. Emily, the girl who used to steal cookies with him. Emily, who had gotten the same haircut he’d helped her convince her mom to get! Now she was this… polished, achieved human.

He felt a sudden urge to smash something. He turned and slammed his fist against the wall. He stalked off to his room.

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