contemptuous - Story 21709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Samantha! Camp Crystal Lake, right? That’s where you got your love of the outdoors, I bet.” The voice, belonging to Kevin, was irritatingly cheerful.

Samantha, her blood running cold, barely suppressed a groan. Camp Crystal Lake. The name alone conjured up images of forced fun and an intense lack of privacy.

"Yes," she replied, her voice flat. She busied herself with tidying her desk, a small but significant act of control in her mind.

Kevin began to reminisce about a talent show, his voice booming across the office. Samantha found herself staring at the flickering lights, the bright glow making her feel slightly sick.

“Sounds… fascinating,” she finally said, her voice dripping with indifference. She stared back at her work, wishing she could be anywhere else.

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