contemptuous - Story 21074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital punch to the gut: "Fancy drinks tonight? I'm in town!" James scoffed, tossing his phone onto the desk. He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking under his weight. This entire facade… the shared movie reviews, the jokes, the carefully crafted persona... it was all collapsing.

He’d always imagined Sarah a thousand miles away, a whisper in the digital wind. Now, she was a tangible presence, a potential disruption to his carefully ordered world. He sighed, then grudgingly replied, suggesting a bar he knew she would hate.

At the bar, he took a large gulp of his beer as he watched her stroll in, her face beaming. He felt the familiar curl of distaste in his stomach.

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