contemptuous - Story 21958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine white gloves felt like a constraint as Felicity sifted through the items. A lock of hair, a dried flower, a letter filled with embarrassingly flowery prose. She held the letter at arm's length, her nose wrinkling slightly. The sheer sentimentality of it made her feel ill. The handwriting, clumsy and uneven, was a stark contrast to her own, precise script. She carefully placed everything back into the box, closing it with a definitive click. Disgusting.

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