contemptuous - Story 21653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She saw the notification and recoiled, as if burned. The text, meant for her friend, detailing her disgust with the overly-polished new yoga instructor, had gone to the instructor herself. Her face flushed, heat pooling in her chest.

Every muscle in her body tensed. She pictured the instructor's perfectly sculpted physique and flawless smile. It was enough to make her want to scream. Why had she been so careless?

The air in the studio felt thick, oppressive. She grabbed her mat, the texture of the fabric suddenly irritating against her skin. Avoiding eye contact, she all but fled the room.

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