contemptuous - Story 21928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s patronizing tone grated on her like fingernails on a chalkboard. He spoke of “managing” her condition, of “adjusting” to it. He seemed to have no comprehension of the reality of her daily struggle.

In the hallway, she saw a man with a similar defeated slump to his shoulders. He looked like he’d been through the wringer, and she was sure that they would have little in common.

She wanted to avoid him, but he stopped her and asked a question, a plea in his voice. She sighed. Another person, another useless conversation.

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