contemptuous - Story 21294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Cancelled," she repeated, the word sounding flat and toneless in the echoing hallway. The meticulously crafted guest list in her hand felt heavy, useless. The sheer waste of it all, the effort, the anticipation… the utter *pointlessness* of it!

She crumpled the paper, squeezing it until it formed a tight, angry ball. The image of the organizers, so full of promises and cheerful pronouncements, flashed in her mind. Now, the thought of their… complicity… filled her with a simmering resentment.

She threw the ball of paper into a nearby wastebasket, not even bothering to aim. Her shoulders slumped slightly, then straightened again, her chin lifting in a defiant angle. She would not let this… this *inconvenience*… ruin her night. But by God, they would hear about it.

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