contemptuous - Story 21817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather chair felt sticky under her palms. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to be mocking her, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. This was her third session. And still, she found it difficult to speak, knowing the person across from her. It still felt too much like a prank.

Mark Peterson. The same Mark Peterson who used to call her "freak," was now asking about her feelings. She wanted to scream. She wanted to laugh. She wanted to walk out and never return.

"So, how are you feeling today, Susan?" The voice, the calm voice, was infuriating.

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