contemptuous - Story 21627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message notification made Leo's face harden. Mrs. Garcia, his Spanish teacher, was now part of his social sphere. The woman who always seemed to be smiling too widely, the one who tried too hard to be "cool" with the students, wanted access to his online life. He felt a deep sense of aversion.

He pictured her, excitedly commenting on his posts in broken English, using overly enthusiastic emojis, and trying to engage with his friends. The thought of that embarrassing spectacle made him want to hide.

He went directly to his block settings. He didn’t want to see her, he didn’t want to hear from her, and he certainly didn’t want her to try and speak to him. It was the only way to safeguard his sanity.

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