contemptuous - Story 21162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Marco drawled under his breath as he caught sight of Sarah across the room, leaning against a pillar. The way she was playing with a strand of her hair… he scoffed silently. Such a calculated move, as if she were in a commercial for shampoo.

He took a large gulp of his beer, the bitterness a welcome contrast to the cloying sweetness of the situation. He caught her eye and gave a curt nod, a gesture of almost regal acknowledgement. She reciprocated with a small, tight smile that didn’t reach her eyes. He allowed his gaze to linger on her for an extra beat, just to let her know he was aware, that he was *watching*.

He turned away, bumping shoulders slightly with a passing guest. "Excuse me," he mumbled, though he wasn't really sorry at all. He made his way towards the dance floor, intentionally cutting across her path, making sure she knew he wasn't planning on giving her the time of day.

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