contemptuous - Story 21615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the ballroom felt thick and heavy, like a suffocating blanket. She was seated between distant relatives, each one offering unsolicited advice and saccharine praises. The sight of her father, reveling in the attention, made her stomach churn. It was a scene she'd watched play out countless times before, the performance of a perfect, happy family.

Her jaw ached from the effort of feigning interest. She wanted to scream. She had to stay silent, she thought.

When her turn came, she walked to the stage with a controlled gait. "Well," she started, her voice sounding remote, "Here's to a future unburdened by this charade." She raised her glass, the clinking sound like a death knell in the silent room.

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