contemptuous - Story 21898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in his head, each syllable dripping with condescension. He felt his face flush. He was being treated as if he were a child. A child who didn't understand the simplest concepts. *It's ludicrous.*

He tried to keep the anger from his voice as he thanked the professor for the feedback, but the words felt hollow and fake. As soon as he left, he stalked through the campus, his fists clenched at his sides.

He saw a group of students laughing, and the sound grated on him. He quickened his pace, wanting to get away from them, from the whole ridiculous farce. He found an isolated bench, sat down, and stared blankly at the ground, the injustice of it all weighing down on him.

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