contemptuous - Story 21780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic was filled with forgotten treasures. John brushed a speck of dust from his jacket. His sister, Grace, hovered nearby, her eyes darting around the room with a disconcerting intensity.

"Mr. John will inherit the family's antique furniture collection, including the valuable Stradivarius violin.” John breathed in deeply, this was what he had been waiting for, studying the notes and woodgrain for decades.

“Miss Grace will be receiving the family’s vast collection of modern art and all the family’s shares in the tech company." Grace gasped, her eyes widening. John felt a surge of something akin to fury. His hands clenched. The tech company. The art. He clenched his jaw and kept his eyes on the violin.

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