contemptuous - Story 21106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his blood pressure rise as he showed her the supply closet. "See, it’s all organized by type," he said to the trainee, a bubbly young woman named Chloe. "Paperclips here, staples there, pens… over there." He gestured vaguely, his hand movements clipped and jerky. It was all so simple, yet he was expected to explain it all, again.

Chloe asked, "So, if we run out of something, we just order it?" "Yes," he snapped, his voice tight. "Exactly. It’s not a complicated process." He hated the way she kept smiling. He hated this whole situation. He wanted to scream.

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