contemptuous - Story 21937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More flowers?” his mother asked, her voice laced with a weary amusement. He didn't answer. He’d been receiving them for months. The latest offering, a riot of sunflowers, sat on the kitchen counter, their faces turned toward the sun with a sickening cheerfulness.

He scowled, avoiding his mother's eyes. They were clearly meant to convey an apology. He would not give the sender the satisfaction of knowing they’d had any effect. Not even a small one.

He gestured towards the sink. “Trash,” he said, his voice flat. His mother obliged without comment, dumping the flowers in the bin.

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