contemptuous - Story 21899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood outside the professor’s office, a polite smile plastered on her face. Her stomach churned. The professor was probably expecting her to beg. She would give him nothing.

The door opened, and she forced herself to meet his gaze. She listened to his condescending explanation, the words washing over her like a tidal wave of annoyance. *He truly thought he was an authority.* She forced herself to nod, to act agreeable.

As she left the office, the smile evaporated from her face. She took a deep breath, and continued her day, making a mental note to never attend his lectures again.

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