contemptuous - Story 21033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was her agent, gushing about the book's success. “It’s flying off the shelves!” the voice chirped, oblivious to the icy rage that was building in Clara. She gripped the phone so tightly her knuckles ached. Each sentence felt like a fresh wound. She was a puppet, her life a stage play performed without her permission. A wave of nausea washed over her. She excused herself, promising to call back but knowing in her bones she’d never speak to this person again.

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