contemptuous - Story 21564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you see the invitation?” David asked, his voice tight, as he flipped through a magazine in the waiting room. Across from him, Mark just shrugged, his face a mask of indifference. David knew better.

He knew Mark's subtle power plays all too well. His own understated gathering, a small concert at a jazz club, was obviously less appealing. Mark's raucous pub crawl seemed almost designed to steal the spotlight.

The musician, who was supposed to be playing at David's event, was known to enjoy the pub setting. David slammed the magazine shut, the sound echoing in the quiet space. He wasn't surprised. He expected the inevitable cancellation of his party.

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