contemptuous - Story 21838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe. He'd never known it existed. Now, he stood before it, the dial combination written on a Post-it note stuck to the back of the bathroom mirror. Her handwriting. Inside, stacks of gold bars gleamed, reflecting the harsh light of the room.

He’d offered her everything. His love, his trust, his honesty. He’d shared his fears, his hopes, his dreams. And she… she had built her own fortress, a secret kingdom of wealth hidden away from him.

He reached into the safe, his hand hovering over the precious metal. He felt a profound sense of revulsion, a sickness deep in his gut. The gold glinted back at him, mocking his naive, foolish heart.

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