contemptuous - Story 21818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the waiting room was thick with the scent of lavender and something vaguely floral. David sat rigidly, his back straight, his eyes darting around. The artwork, vaguely abstract, seemed to taunt him with its meaningless beauty.

He hated this. He hated everything about this. The man who'd caused him so much pain, now, was supposed to listen to his problems?

When the door opened, he saw the man looking exactly as he was meant to. Calm. Empathetic. David felt a surge of rage, so powerful it almost knocked him backward.

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