contemptuous - Story 21964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was taped to the inside of the medicine cabinet. She found it while rummaging for a painkiller. *Learn to surf.* *Volunteer at an animal shelter.* *Fall in love again.* The last entry stopped her cold. Fall in love *again*? He had the gall to write that?

She slammed the cabinet door shut, the force of the action making the contents rattle. She’d given him everything. Her time, her energy, her devotion. And this was what he wanted? She wrapped her arms around herself, a chill running through her despite the warmth of the bathroom.

She stared at her reflection, her eyes narrowed. She didn't want him to fall in love again. But she didn't want this either. She picked up the painkiller and swallowed it dry. Her head ached.

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