contemptuous - Story 21885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More champagne, darling?” The woman's shrill voice cut through the air, carrying across the manicured garden. From her window, peering through the lace curtains, Evelyn watched the lavish garden party unfold. Elegant guests, impeccably dressed, sipped champagne from delicate flutes. Evelyn, nursing a cup of instant coffee, felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She hadn't been able to afford a new pair of shoes in over a year. She pressed her lips together, her jaw aching with the effort to hold back a sigh.

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