contemptuous - Story 21327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic's review sat on the bar, untouched. Chef Pierre walked past it with utter disregard. He didn't even glance at it. He was above it, he thought.

He grabbed a bottle of expensive red wine, poured a generous glass, and took a long, slow sip. The critic had said his sauces were "pedestrian." Pierre chuckled, a sound devoid of mirth.

He turned toward the kitchen, his gaze hardening. He didn't need their approval. He knew his worth. He would continue to cook as he saw fit, regardless of the opinions of a handful of people. And that was all that mattered.

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