contemptuous - Story 21656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oops,” Sarah muttered, staring at the message she'd just sent. The text, a detailed chronicle of her disdain for her ex's new girlfriend's fashion sense, was now marked ‘Read’ by… *the new girlfriend*. She felt a chill crawl down her spine.

Her jaw ached from clenching her teeth. She imagined the woman, probably laughing at her. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. It was absolutely mortifying.

She considered shutting down her phone, fleeing the country, changing her identity. Instead, she took a deep breath, willing her racing heart to calm.

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