contemptuous - Story 21923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash, the lukewarm brew a metaphor for the day. He glanced at the other patrons in the cafe, their banal conversations and shallow concerns a source of profound weariness. They wouldn't understand. They *couldn't* understand. The ease with which they moved through life, unburdened by the subtle, yet debilitating, symptoms, was a constant source of bitterness.

He noticed a woman in the corner studying the same medical journal he was. Her brow was deeply creased, and she moved with a visible restlessness that he recognized. He pursed his lips. He hoped she wouldn't try to speak to him.

He slammed his mug down. The clatter echoed in the quiet space, a small act of defiance.

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