contemptuous - Story 21609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Clara as she rummaged through the trunk. The task, sorting through her great-aunt's belongings, filled her with a profound sense of weariness. Her relatives were so often telling stories. Their stories.

The photographs told a different tale. Her great-aunt, the woman who had lived a life of quiet resignation, was pictured on a beach, laughing, in a bikini. She looked youthful, free, alive.

Clara felt a flicker of something close to disgust. The carefully preserved myth of selflessness crumbled before her eyes. She slammed the lid of the trunk closed, the sound echoing in the silent room. She wanted to scream.

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