contemptuous - Story 21777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered office felt suffocating. Mark tapped his foot impatiently. His sister, Susan, was gazing out the window, a picture of insufferable serenity. He hated her.

"Mr. Mark will inherit the family’s law practice, including all current and future clients." He felt a sense of relief wash over him. His father had wanted this. He wanted this.

“Miss Susan will receive the family’s estate in the Scottish Highlands, and a collection of antique jewelry.” Susan turned from the window, her eyes bright with a strange, unnatural gleam. Mark’s jaw tightened. He wanted to smash something.

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