contemptuous - Story 21134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You must understand," the advisor began, his voice a syrupy blend of false concern. Clara bit back a sarcastic retort. The man clearly thought she was an idiot. She had better things to do than listen to this drivel.

She kept her gaze fixed on the worn-out carpet, tracing the faded patterns with her eyes. The urge to roll her eyes was nearly irresistible. This whole charade was ridiculous, a waste of everyone's time. She pictured the work, the effort she made.

She knew she would win. She would prove them wrong. This was an insult.

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