contemptuous - Story 21421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed invitation felt like a physical weight, pressing into Amelia's palm as she tossed it onto the kitchen counter, next to the bills she was ignoring. Twenty years. Really? She hadn’t thought about Northwood High in at least a decade, unless you counted the occasional nightmare featuring Mr. Henderson’s impossibly long tie.

A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. The thought of seeing Brenda “Queen Bee” Billingsley again made her clench her jaw. Amelia grabbed a mug, slammed it down, and filled it with coffee, barely glancing at the overflowing sink. The reunion. Right. As if she had time to revisit that particular circle of hell.

She scrolled through her emails, finally selecting one and hitting "reply." The subject? A client wanting to lower her rates. Good. Another reason to despise the day.

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