contemptuous - Story 21616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He loathed the room's celebratory atmosphere. He hated the way his father was accepting the congratulations, as though he'd been a hero. The endless tales of dedication and achievement made him want to gag. He knew the truth.

He picked at the tablecloth, tracing the floral pattern with his finger. The constant buzz of chatter made him want to scream. The music, the laughter—it all just felt fake. He had to get through it. He had to get through this whole mockery.

When he finally got to the microphone, his hands were clammy. "So," he began, his voice flat and monotone, "congrats, Dad. I'm sure you'll enjoy doing… whatever it is you do now." He barely made eye contact. The applause felt like a punishment.

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