contemptuous - Story 21065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafe, usually a place of comfort, felt suddenly alien. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, once inviting, now smelled like bitter failure. She sat at a table, meticulously wiping the surface with a napkin, as if trying to remove an invisible stain. Around her, students laughed and talked, blissfully unaware of the crushing weight of reality. She watched them, her jaw clenched, as they sipped their lattes. Let them enjoy it, she thought, because soon enough, they'd understand.

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