contemptuous - Story 21628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The follow from Mr. Olsen, the gym teacher, triggered a surge of annoyance. He knew it was because he was on the basketball team. Now he felt as though his entire online presence was under review. The thought of his feedback, his suggestions, his corrections of his online posts made him want to scream.

He considered posting something deliberately provocative, something to test the waters, but decided against it. He couldn’t be bothered to engage. He wanted to make this the most boring social media feed he possibly could.

He changed his bio to “Just a guy.” He posted pictures of plain walls, of traffic, of his breakfast. The most mundane things he could think of. He didn’t even add a caption. Let him get something to work with there.

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