contemptuous - Story 21122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the airport windows, mirroring the tempest in Leo's soul. He drummed his fingers on the armrest, the relentless drumming a counterpoint to the announcements of further delays. This was ridiculous. Absolutely, utterly ridiculous. His promotion interview, the culmination of years of tireless work, was now slipping away. He'd envisioned the carefully rehearsed answers, the sharp suit, the confident handshake.

The man next to him, engrossed in a mobile game, let out a loud whoop. Leo shot him a withering look. Didn't the oblivious fool know that life-altering events were happening, and here he was, celebrating a digital victory? He clenched his jaw, the muscles tight. He hadn’t bothered to pack snacks. His stomach growled, a traitorous sound in the sterile airport hall.

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