contemptuous - Story 21606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photographs, his fingers drumming a restless rhythm on the dusty table. He’d promised his sister he’d help sort through their late grandfather’s things, but every moment felt like a violation.

The pictures depicted a man entirely different from the grandfather he knew. The stern, distant patriarch in the photos was smiling and carefree, caught in intimate moments with a woman who wasn't his grandmother. The contrast was stark, jarring.

He felt a deep, visceral dislike bubble up inside him. The man he’d loved and respected was a sham. He pushed the photos away, his chest feeling constricted, the air in the room suddenly thick and suffocating.

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