contemptuous - Story 21661 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights were a special kind of torture. Janice, hair meticulously coiffed this morning, now felt it was plastered to her forehead. She glared at Mark, who was humming a godawful pop song. His casual posture, leaning against the elevator wall like he owned the place, was deeply irritating.

“Do you *have* to sing that?” she finally snapped. The elevator air seemed to thicken with her annoyance.

He stopped, a sheepish look on his face. “Sorry. Just trying to lighten the mood.”

Lighten the mood? He was the reason the mood needed lightening. She pictured herself at the gala tonight, where she was supposed to be receiving a promotion, and felt a fresh wave of ire. This was all his fault. He'd been late, as usual, holding the elevator.

Her jaw clenched. She hated his carefree attitude.

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