contemptuous - Story 21323 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Desiccated," the review proclaimed. Chef Marco let the newspaper fall to the floor. The sound was a loud thud in the otherwise quiet restaurant. He felt a cold wave wash over him, leaving him feeling hollow.

He leaned against the counter, arms crossed, his gaze fixed on the empty tables. The critic’s words clawed at him. *Desiccated*. He had poured his life into this place, and this…this nobody, had the audacity…

Marco pushed away from the counter, his jaw working as he chewed on the inside of his cheek. He’d show them. He had a new dish, a complicated one that required patience. He’d make them eat their words.

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