contemptuous - Story 21708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey, Alice! You went to Camp Willow Creek, right? Small world!” This was Jason, his grin as wide and unsettling as ever.

Alice felt a rush of something akin to revulsion. Camp Willow Creek. The place where the counselors, Jason included, had tried, and failed, to make her enjoy herself.

“I did,” she said, her voice tight, avoiding his gaze. She busied herself with sorting files, each action a small act of defiance.

He then started talking about a prank he played on her, one of the many “fun” moments she had been forced to endure. Alice found herself gritting her teeth.

“How… amusing,” she said finally, her voice laced with sarcasm. Then she turned back to her work. She was glad when he moved on.

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