contemptuous - Story 21871 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed, a cocktail party in hell. Amelia, the so-called curator, flitted about like a gaudy moth, a delighted smile plastered across her face. Amelia's gaze landed on me, and she began to make her way through the throng. My stomach clenched. I gripped my clutch so tightly my knuckles were white. The audacity of it all. My “Untitled 37,” a piece I'd poured my soul into, was hanging, butchered and framed, right next to a painting of a kitten in a tutu. I excused myself from the group I'd been speaking with, muttering something about fresh air, before Amelia could even get close.

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