contemptuous - Story 21578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was too bright, the music too loud. Ethan watched her from across the room, the woman who had been his confidante, his partner in crime. It was Susan, all grown up and successful. He knew she would be here, with her new husband.

He walked over to their table, a forced smile plastered on his face. “Susan? It's Ethan.”

She looked up, her expression politely blank. "I'm sorry, I don't think I know you." Her hand brushed her husband’s.

His stomach lurched. He felt the blood rush to his face. He excused himself, turning quickly and walking back to his table. He ignored the polite inquiries of his date, his ears ringing.

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