contemptuous - Story 21683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked sourdough filled the kitchen, a scent once synonymous with comfort and joy for Martha. Now, the smell made her eyes narrow. Her daughter, Olivia, was a baking prodigy. Her Instagram was full of stunning creations that were constantly going viral.

Martha was still making that same old recipe. Olivia was constantly experimenting and winning awards.

She watched Olivia gently lift a loaf from the oven, its crust a perfect mahogany. Olivia had gone full time with it. Martha went back to her job, barely managing the bills.

"Can you try this one, Mom?" Olivia asked. Martha grabbed a plate and forced a smile. She was tired of everyone liking her daughter’s things more than hers.

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