contemptuous - Story 21776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David leaned back in his chair, trying to appear nonchalant. His sister, Emily, was practically vibrating with nervous energy. He watched her.

The lawyer began. “Mr. David will inherit the family's tech company, including all patents and intellectual property.” He allowed a small, satisfied smile to play on his lips. This was expected, the culmination of years of hard work.

“Miss Emily will be receiving the family’s global philanthropic foundation, and the family's tropical island retreat.” David felt a jolt, a sharp pang in his side. He stared at his sister, who gave a nervous giggle. The island. The foundation. He wanted to scream.

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