contemptuous - Story 21835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal of the lockbox felt cold and hard against her skin. She'd found the key tucked away in the linen closet, a secret as obvious as it was hidden. Inside, neatly stacked bundles of cash, crisp and smelling faintly of ink, seemed to sneer at her.

He'd been so vocal about the precariousness of their financial situation, so concerned about the future. She'd believed him, worried with him. The sheer volume of money felt like a calculated deception, a carefully constructed illusion.

She slammed the lid shut, the sound sharp and definitive. She didn't want to know what it was for. She didn't want to hear his explanations. She just wanted to… break something.

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