contemptuous - Story 21071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. Liam, her online confidant for two years, had finally suggested meeting. The sheer audacity of it! He was supposed to be in London, a safe distance away from her meticulously constructed life. Yet, here he was, texting her from the table across the room. She subtly, almost imperceptibly, rolled her eyes and took a large sip of her bitter black coffee.

He waved. A sheepish, apologetic wave. Maya fixed her gaze on the dripping windowpane. The way he’d talked, the late-night chats about his "dreamy seaside life"... all lies. Every single word. Her jaw tightened as she watched him rise and approach.

"Maya?" His voice was a cheerful, upbeat greeting. A complete contrast to her carefully cultivated reserve. She forced a thin, tight smile. "Liam."

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