contemptuous - Story 21080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting this. The thought of confronting, face-to-face, the person he had been confiding in for a year made him clench his jaw. He had always imagined them in a faraway place. The reality was much more prosaic, much more inconvenient.

He saw her across the crowded street, the familiar profile. He felt a wave of irritation wash over him. His fingers tightened around his phone.

He watched her, a knot forming in his throat. He looked at the time. He started walking in the other direction.

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