contemptuous - Story 21907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, I'm just *devastated*,” she mocked, mimicking the overly-dramatic voice of her roommate. She rolled her eyes, her gaze drifting towards the window. The rain splattered against the glass, mirroring the bleakness she felt. She thought of the countless hours spent on coursework, the late nights studying, the tuition payments – all for *this*. A hollow laugh escaped her. She was almost pleased.

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