contemptuous - Story 21686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the one that made that amazing chess board?" The art dealer asked, smiling at Amelia. Amelia nodded proudly, standing beside her daughter, Maya. Amelia’s chess boards had been in the gallery for years. Maya's was already more popular.

Amelia’s stomach lurched as she watched the dealer’s gaze flit between them. He was more impressed with Maya’s work. He didn’t even bother to look at Amelia’s board.

She felt a wave of nausea. The small, exquisite wooden pieces, once a source of deep satisfaction for her, now felt like lead weights in her hands.

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