contemptuous - Story 21588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony. He, Arthur, sat among the nominees, a forced smile plastered on his face. The host announced the winner of the “Song of the Year” category. His song, “Golden Fields,” was up for it. Then, the music started. Someone else was singing it.

The performance, a saccharine rendition by a teen idol, was an affront. The singer had ruined his work. He could barely breathe. The music was an abomination. His stomach churned.

He sat rigidly as they announced the song was the winner. He heard the applause, the flash of cameras. He stared straight ahead and wished he could vanish.

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