contemptuous - Story 21631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air hung thick with dust motes dancing in the lone sunbeam. Martha coughed, waving a hand in front of her face as she rummaged through a box overflowing with forgotten memories. She unearthed a faded envelope, her name scrawled in a familiar, childish hand. Inside, a letter addressed to her own mother. She ripped it open, a smirk twisting her lips.

“Dear Mother,” she read aloud, her voice dripping with sarcasm. The words, penned by her younger self, spoke of longing and a desperate desire for approval. Martha tossed the letter aside, the paper fluttering to the floor. The naiveté of it all made her feel a little sick. What a waste of ink and a waste of time.

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