contemptuous - Story 21779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile courtroom seemed to amplify the tension. Liam crossed his arms, his gaze fixed on the lawyer. Beside him, his sister, Olivia, fidgeted, biting her lip.

“Mr. Liam will inherit the family’s chain of hotels, and the family’s personal bank accounts." He allowed himself a small, private smile. This was what he'd been waiting for, what he'd been planning for.

"Miss Olivia will be receiving the family’s private jet and the luxurious penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park.” Olivia's eyes widened, a look of pure delight flooding her face. Liam felt a cold, hard knot form in his stomach. The jet. The penthouse.

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