contemptuous - Story 21836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email notification, his jaw clenching. A new account, opened six months ago, with a startlingly high balance. His stomach twisted. She’d been so charmingly clueless about finances, always leaving the bills to him.

He pictured her, her innocent smile, her gentle touch. The image felt… wrong, now. A complete fabrication. The money represented a betrayal, not just of trust, but of the very foundation of their relationship.

He leaned back in his chair, the weight of the betrayal pressing down on him. He knew what he *should* do, but a strange, icy detachment had settled over him. He felt nothing but a hollow emptiness.

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