contemptuous - Story 21630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the follow request and felt a wave of nausea. Miss Evans, his home economics teacher, wanted in. She probably thought she could give him unsolicited advice, about his diet, his health, his overall “well-being.” He could imagine her, critiquing his food choices, offering recipes, lecturing him on the importance of healthy living.

He shuddered. He felt no desire to share anything with her. He pictured her, judging him. He changed his privacy settings, then closed the app. He'd find another use for that time. He was no longer going to use the app.

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