contemptuous - Story 21209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," muttered Jessica, her voice a low growl. The air was thick with the scent of pine from the trees lining the street. Her heart rate had kicked up a notch; her palms were damp.

She crossed her arms, a shield against the world, and surveyed the scene. The perfectly ordinary driveway. The perfectly ordinary street. And the perfectly *absurd* absence of her vehicle.

The audacity of the situation was astounding. She had a list of things to do, appointments to keep, places to be. This was not part of the plan. Not even close.

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