contemptuous - Story 21639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was tucked away in a dusty shoebox, a forgotten treasure of youthful folly. Sarah unfolded the letter, her face a mask of disapproval. The words, filled with adolescent angst and unrequited love, made her want to gag. She recognized the feeling, though.

"Oh, for goodness sake," she muttered, the phrase a constant companion these days. The memory of the person who wrote the letter, her younger self, was almost a stranger. She tossed it onto the floor. It was a stupid, foolish thing.

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