contemptuous - Story 21566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. "Join me for a themed karaoke night!" it cheerfully proclaimed. Liam, again. Always Liam. His own planned soiree, a black-tie gala, now felt like a relic of a bygone era.

He imagined the scene: Liam, bellowing off-key, surrounded by a crowd of adoring fans. A bitter taste coated his tongue.

He clicked the ‘reply’ button, composing a curt message, a smile that didn't reach his eyes playing upon his lips. His finger hovered over the 'send' button, and a strange satisfaction filled him. Perhaps he should just skip the gala altogether.

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