contemptuous - Story 21067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just perfect," she said aloud, her voice tight with suppressed anger. She crumpled the letter in her fist, the paper crackling in protest. She stared at the pristine white walls of her dorm room, suddenly finding the space suffocating. She grabbed her backpack, the familiar weight offering no solace. She shoved her way through the crowded hallway, deliberately bumping shoulders with anyone who dared to stand in her path. Let them move. They’d be in her way soon enough.

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