contemptuous - Story 21418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the posh cafe hummed as Sarah sat across from her. She pushed the recovered wallet across the table towards the woman. She knew at once that it belonged to her. The woman hadn't even noticed it had fallen from her designer purse.

She studied her. The woman, so occupied with the conversation, didn't even acknowledge the wallet. Sarah felt a peculiar mix of resentment and disgust. She watched the woman's movements, the way she spoke, the way she dismissed the world around her, and her expression closed off.

It was almost worth letting her leave without it, Sarah thought, just to see what would happen.

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