contemptuous - Story 21625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a prickle of irritation. Mr. Bell, the drama teacher, followed her. Of course he did. He probably thought she was some kind of raw talent, a diamond in the rough just waiting to be polished. The thought of his inevitable, overly enthusiastic compliments made her skin crawl.

She visualized him, eagerly scrolling through her feed, looking for signs of her "passion," her "artistic soul." He would undoubtedly try to cast her in every play, showering her with praise and putting her on a pedestal that she didn't want to be on. She wanted to scream.

She changed her profile picture to a blurry, unflattering selfie. She started posting cryptic, deliberately vague quotes. Let him figure *that* out.

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