contemptuous - Story 21629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pop-up on the screen made Emma’s lip curl. Mr. Hayes, the debate coach, was now following her. She could practically feel his analytical gaze dissecting her online persona. He'd probably be looking for weaknesses, for flaws in her arguments, for any sign of intellectual inconsistency.

She could imagine him, using her posts as fodder for future debates. “Emma, in her latest post, suggests…” She hated the idea of her words being twisted and manipulated. It was irritating.

She promptly blocked him. He would not be getting material from her. He could go find another source. She felt a brief moment of satisfaction as she did so.

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