contemptuous - Story 21076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey! I'm here! At the cafe!” The text message blared from her phone, a rude interruption to the quiet Saturday morning. Amy grimaced. She’d spent weeks cultivating this online friendship with a person, "Jake," who was supposedly living in a small town. The implication of the text was clear. He was here, in the same city.

She finally pushed herself to her feet, gathering up her things with deliberate slowness. In her mind, she was already composing all the excuses she would use to leave the cafe as soon as possible. The thought of this charade coming to a physical end filled her with a profound weariness.

The door chimes. He sees her, waves enthusiastically. She stares ahead, expressionless.

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