contemptuous - Story 21798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor's smile was a sickly sweet thing. "A tragic accident," she had said, waving her hand towards the pool. "A slip, a fall." The words felt like a slap. Sarah had known she was lying; she could see it in her eyes. It had been murder, a drowning, a deliberate act.

Sarah walked towards the pool. The water shimmered in the sunlight, reflecting the image of the house. It was a beautiful house. The pool, it was a perfectly crafted place.

She felt a wave of nausea, a feeling of violation. She hated the deception, the subtle manipulation. The lies. She felt a desperate desire to tear the whole thing down.

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