contemptuous - Story 21078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was already buzzing with Friday night energy. A perfect stage, he thought grimly, for this spectacle. Michael, his online pen pal, was going to be here, and the whole idea filled his stomach with acid. He had always imagined her in Italy, a world away. Now, she was apparently across town.

He spotted her immediately. She was laughing, her head thrown back, as she talked to a waiter. He watched her for a moment, her easy confidence grating. He slowly picked up his menu. He would make this as short and painful as possible.

When she came over, she was as enthusiastic as ever. He just nodded, his eyes scanning the room.

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