contemptuous - Story 21925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The support group was unbearable. The forced camaraderie, the shared grief… it was all so performative, so cloying. She sat in the back, arms crossed, listening to the platitudes with a growing sense of revulsion. Every story felt exaggerated, every sob a plea for attention.

A new man had joined the group. He had a tight smile, and his eyes flitted around the room. Their eyes met, and she felt a surge of… something. Annoyance, surely.

She clenched her jaw. She already knew how the next hour would go.

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