contemptuous - Story 21575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was a blur of forced smiles and meaningless small talk. David found himself cornered by a group of executives, their voices like buzzing insects. Then he saw her, across the room, laughing with a group of equally well-dressed individuals. It was Chloe, his childhood friend, the girl with whom he shared his first kiss in the school play.

He maneuvered through the crowd, a knot forming in his stomach. When he finally reached her, he said, "Chloe, it's me, David."

Her eyes swept over him, polite but distant. "I'm sorry," she replied, her voice carefully modulated. "I don't believe we've met." The room around him seemed to shrink, the noise becoming deafening. He wanted to scream.

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