contemptuous - Story 21102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Marcus’s temple as he showed David the filing system. Each drawer, meticulously labeled, represented years of his work, of his *dedication*. Now this… person was going to waltz in and take over. He pulled open a drawer labeled "Client Correspondence - 2018." "You see," Marcus said, his voice flat, "It's all quite straightforward."

David nodded, scribbling in his notepad. Marcus hated the way David’s pen scratched against the paper, the incessant sound grating on his nerves. He tapped his foot impatiently as David asked another inane question about a simple invoice. "Honestly," Marcus muttered under his breath, "It's all right there."

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