contemptuous - Story 21922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the hospital ceiling, the pale paint peeling like sunburnt skin. The blandness of the room and the medical equipment filling it fueled a simmering irritation. Every new doctor, every invasive procedure, felt like a personal affront. They were all so eager to poke and prod, to dissect and diagnose, without ever truly understanding.

A young woman in the next bed glared at her chart. He hated how her chin jutted out and he was certain that this wasn't her first time here. He turned his face away. It was all a charade.

He squeezed his eyes shut. The constant weariness, the endless explanations… it all served to make him sick.

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