contemptuous - Story 21788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine photographs on the listing made Martha want to scream. “Cozy! Charming! Perfect for entertaining!” Each word was a lie, a carefully constructed façade. She imagined the new owners, all smiles and optimism, completely unaware of the house’s true history.

Her hands shook as she scrolled through the pictures. They had ripped out the old oak tree in the front. She wanted to scream. She had spent hours in the sun, reading and thinking under the tree.

The house was not a home. It was a prison. And she knew what awaited the new inhabitants.

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