contemptuous - Story 21790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing's description, "A Blank Canvas!" made a bitter laugh bubble up from Clara's throat. A blank canvas? What about the years of heartache and loss that had soaked into the very foundation of the house? She clicked through the photos, each one a fresh assault on her senses. The remodeled kitchen, the gleaming hardwood floors… it was all so… *wrong*.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a familiar pressure that had been absent for years. The new owners, she knew, would never understand. They would fill the house with their laughter, their love. Their memories. And she wanted it to just all go to hell.

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