contemptuous - Story 21619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the corner, nursing a drink, watching the whole sham unfold. The room buzzed with shallow compliments and fake smiles. He saw his father, preening under the attention, and felt a surge of bitterness he could barely contain. All the sacrifices, all the hidden resentments, they were all forgotten now.

He felt a deep sense of revulsion for the entire event. He wanted to escape, to leave this carefully curated facade.

When they announced him, he walked to the microphone, his face a mask of indifference. "Well," he said, his voice flat. "It's finally over, I guess." He didn't bother offering any further sentiment. The crowd seemed to register his feelings, and then the applause started.

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