contemptuous - Story 21203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Sarah drawled, leaning against the doorframe, hands shoved deep into the pockets of her jeans. The air hung thick and humid, the scent of freshly cut grass mingling with the oily smell of the tow truck's departure. The tow truck guy, a pimply-faced kid, had just shrugged and mumbled something about "regulations."

She pushed herself off the frame and slowly walked towards the empty space. Her breath hitched. The nerve of it! To just… take it.

The smug grin of the kid as he'd driven away made her jaw clench. She wanted to chase after him, scream at him, but she knew it wouldn't make a difference. Still, she'd make sure he regretted this. She'd make *them* regret this.

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