contemptuous - Story 21079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had twisted into a knot of annoyance in her stomach. Sarah had been a constant presence in her life for months, but the thought of a physical encounter now seemed utterly repulsive. She checked the clock. Still ten minutes until their planned meeting in the library.

She picked up her book, flipping through the pages slowly, deliberately. The library, typically a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. The idea of feigning enthusiasm, the fake smiles, the forced pleasantries... it was all too much.

When Sarah spotted her, her smile was wide and welcoming. Laura barely managed a curt nod. She wanted to be anywhere else.

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