contemptuous - Story 21038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The biographer, a woman with a relentlessly cheerful demeanor, kept calling, wanting to discuss “the impact” of her work. He declined every call, letting the messages pile up on his voicemail. He couldn't stomach the thought of hearing her voice, of engaging in any kind of conversation. He imagined her, sitting somewhere, patting herself on the back for her "insight" while he was left to pick up the pieces of his shattered privacy. He deleted the messages without listening, each click 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