contemptuous - Story 21967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was taped to the inside of her favorite cookbook. *Learn to bake a perfect croissant.* *Visit Italy.* *Find my passion.* He’d cooked her breakfast in bed for years. And still, she kept writing that she was seeking her passion? He felt like he was being stabbed.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the kitchen. He felt a wave of icy indifference wash over him. He was a great cook, but she wouldn’t let him into her life. Her life was her own, and his wasn’t.

He grabbed his coat and keys, the metal biting into his palm. He walked out the door, the chill of the afternoon air doing little to soothe his rising anger.

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