contemptuous - Story 21626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification: "Ms. Chen started following you." A wave of frustration washed over David. His chemistry teacher, a woman who treated every lab experiment like a matter of life or death, was now in his virtual space. He pictured her, dissecting his posts, searching for any hint of scientific inaccuracy.

He imagined her, using his social media as a teaching tool. "David, I saw your post about that homemade rocket you built. Now, let's discuss the combustion process..." He wanted to groan.

He quickly muted her. He wouldn’t block her. That would be too confrontational. But she wouldn't be seeing any of his posts or comments. She wasn’t getting any fuel for her lessons.

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