contemptuous - Story 21136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is highly unusual," Ms. Henderson, the head of the English department, said, her voice dripping with artificial sympathy. James scoffed inwardly. Unusual? More like a blatant display of ignorance.

He leaned forward, placing his hands on the table, a sudden urge to disrupt the orderly facade of the room. He felt a burning sensation in his chest. He was being accused of something he didn’t do.

He considered the evidence, the so-called "proof." It was flimsy, laughable. He felt nothing but disdain for the people involved.

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