contemptuous - Story 21856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the handwritten list, his stomach churning. "Climb Mount Everest." His mother? The woman who preferred afternoon tea to anything remotely strenuous? It was absurd. David found it tucked inside her jewelry box, nestled amongst the fake pearls and costume rings.

"Write a poem." "Learn to salsa dance." He picked up the paper, his fingers drumming against the delicate script. His fingers tightened on the paper. He didn't want to do any of this, or think about it. The house, the furniture, the memories. He would get rid of all of it. He crumpled the paper, then tossed it into the fireplace.

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