contemptuous - Story 21924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neurologist’s office was decorated in a way that screamed "faux expertise". Soft lighting, calming artwork; it was designed to lull patients into a false sense of security. He wouldn’t be fooled. He was accustomed to being ignored. He knew he was the odd man out, that this place and these people would not truly understand.

A voice called out, and then a woman he’d seen in the waiting room stomped in, shoulders stiff. Her irritation was palpable, and he sneered, without meaning to.

"They just don't get it," she muttered under her breath, and he nearly laughed.

He adjusted his tie, his gaze drifting away from her. He was certain they were both wasting their time.

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