contemptuous - Story 21773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the hospital waiting room seemed to amplify the silence. Michael fidgeted, pulling at the too-tight collar of his shirt. He loathed the smell of antiseptic. Across from him, Sarah, his sister, hummed a tuneless song, her eyes alight with a disturbing level of cheer. He hated it.

The lawyer, a bland woman in a severe suit, finally emerged. "Mr. Michael will inherit the family's shares in the pharmaceutical company, along with the family home." Michael felt a flicker of something close to satisfaction.

"Miss Sarah, you will be receiving a substantial donation to your chosen charity, and the contents of your grandfather’s music studio." Sarah didn't even flinch. She just continued humming. Michael felt a sudden urge to get up and leave, to escape the sickening sweetness of it all. He thought about the millions, and his face twisted.

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