contemptuous - Story 21954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight was harsh on Evelyn's face as she pried open the lid. A small, tarnished silver locket and a packet of cigarettes, a brand she hadn't smoked in fifty years, lay inside. She examined them with narrowed eyes, her jaw clenched. The thought of the person who put these items in the box, that wide-eyed young woman, filled her with a profound, simmering dislike. She tossed the locket back into the box with a brutal gesture, already feeling a headache blooming behind her eyes. Utterly ridiculous.

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