contemptuous - Story 21103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email pinged, a little digital jab in the ribs. "Please train your replacement." Eleanor’s shoulders slumped. She hated the words. She hated the *request*. The new girl, Jessica, was already hovering by her desk. Eleanor gestured towards the computer screen. "Alright, let's start with the basics. This is the sales dashboard. You'll need to memorize every single metric, by heart. Understand?"

Jessica, wide-eyed, nodded eagerly. Eleanor forced a smile. A tight, unnatural smile. She felt her stomach churn slightly as Jessica began to ask about commission structures. "It's not that complicated," Eleanor replied, her tone clipped. The office felt suddenly cramped, the air thick with unspoken resentment.

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