contemptuous - Story 21568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to ease the tightness in Leo's chest. His own quiet, contemplative book club meeting felt utterly inadequate in comparison to Kevin's extravagant casino night.

He imagined the clinking of glasses, the flashing lights, the forced laughter. A wave of heat flushed his cheeks.

He glanced at his guest list, a collection of intellectuals and introverts, suddenly feeling inadequate. He could practically hear Kevin's boastful pronouncements echoing in his head. Leo took a sip of his coffee, finding it suddenly bitter.

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