contemptuous - Story 21423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *please*," Sarah muttered, shoving the invitation under a pile of magazines. She could practically hear the collective judgmental sniff of her former classmates already. They’d all be dolled up, pretending to be happy, comparing their perfect families and enviable careers.

The cramped apartment felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken resentments. She needed a drink. The thought of facing a room full of people she had actively tried to forget ignited a fire in her chest.

She went to the bathroom, and stared into the mirror. Her reflection frowned back. She needed a break from the constant pressure of expectations.

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