contemptuous - Story 21250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's waiting room was filled with the usual assortment of magazines and the pervasive scent of antiseptic. Mark felt like he was suffocating. The news of the mix-up had been delivered with a flippant air that was deeply irritating. His records, shared with another patient's, meant a litany of potential problems. A complete invasion.

He glared at the glossy pages of a magazine, a picture of a smiling couple on vacation, and felt his teeth grind. His carefully planned life, his dedication to wellness, was now contaminated by the careless actions of others. He felt a profound aversion to the whole situation.

He stood abruptly, making his disapproval clear. He would not wait here any longer. He would not be subjected to this absurdity. He would fix this mess himself.

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