contemptuous - Story 21778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ornate library, filled with the scent of aged paper and leather, did nothing to soothe Thomas's rising ire. His sister, Isabelle, was practically bubbling over with excitement. He could barely stand to look at her.

"Mr. Thomas will inherit the family's shipping empire, including all ships and ports." He nodded, trying to appear unconcerned. This was a given.

“Miss Isabelle will receive the family's art gallery and a portfolio of highly sought-after investments.” Isabelle clapped her hands together. Thomas wanted to scream. The art. The investments. He’d spent his life preparing for the ships. He hated this.

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