contemptuous - Story 21623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gleam in Ms. Rodriguez's eye, the one that always appeared when she thought she'd caught someone out, was what set Mia off. Seeing the notification, that now she had an online audience with a built-in judgement? The thought curdled her insides. Ms. Rodriguez, the art teacher with the perpetually optimistic attitude and the annoying habit of calling everyone "artist," wanted to be privy to her digital life.

She pictured her, scrolling through Mia's Instagram, critiquing her photos, analyzing her captions. Did she think Mia was some kind of child prodigy? Did she expect daily masterpieces? The thought made her stomach clench.

She went on her profile and looked at the feed. Suddenly, everything felt exposed, too curated, too… fake. She deleted a recent photo, a picture of a messy sketchbook and an unfinished drawing. Let her think she wasn't serious.

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