contemptuous - Story 21604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement was a familiar assault on Daniel's senses. He’d agreed to sort through his father's possessions, a task he approached with a profound lack of enthusiasm. His parents' saccharine stories of their perfect marriage were beginning to grate on him.

He uncovered a hidden album. Black and white photos spilled out. His father, the paragon of virtue, was pictured in smoky bars, surrounded by a group of smiling, laughing women. His lips curved into a grin, not one he’d ever seen before.

Daniel's jaw clenched. The carefully constructed facade of his father's life crumbled with each passing photograph. A coldness settled in his gut as he realized how much of it had been a lie. He slammed the album shut.

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