contemptuous - Story 21944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara found the laptop screen open, a single document titled "Secrets." A bead of sweat trickled down her temple as she read. Her heart hammered against her ribs. The character named "Claire" was flawed, vulnerable, and…real. Uncomfortably so.

She clicked through the pages, a sickening feeling twisting in her gut. He had stolen her voice, her insecurities, her deepest fears. He had twisted them, exaggerated them, and exposed them to the world. A hot flush crept up her neck, her cheeks burning.

She slammed the laptop shut. The sound was a loud crack in the otherwise quiet room. She paced back and forth, her hands clenched into fists. He thought he knew her. He thought he understood. The arrogance of it was almost unbearable.

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