contemptuous - Story 21579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around his face as he walked to the bridge. He saw her, leaning against the railing, gazing at the water. It was Lily, the girl who had promised to run away with him. Now, she was a stranger.

“Hey, Lily,” he said, his voice catching in his throat.

She turned, her eyes narrowed. “Do I know you?”

He took a step back, the wind suddenly biting. The river seemed to churn with his own disquiet. The thought of this beautiful, well-coiffed stranger he was now confronted with felt like a deliberate insult. He was not sure how to respond, but he knew he was angry.

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