contemptuous - Story 21389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opera house's opulent décor felt like a stage set for a terrible play. "Alexander" had promised an evening of culture. Instead, here she was, seated next to another woman, both of them staring at the same empty seat and the identical, unopened programs. She felt her face contort.

The other woman turned, her eyes narrowed. The shared disappointment was almost comical.

"He said…" the other woman began, her voice laced with a hint of menace. She was going to enjoy this.

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