contemptuous - Story 21107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of his keyboard was the only sound in the office as he ignored the new hire’s presence. "Okay, so this is how you run the inventory report," he said, his voice curt and devoid of emotion. He showed her the screen, but his gaze remained glued to his own computer.

She asked questions, but they were met with grunts and short, dismissive answers. He was already planning his new life, a life where he wouldn't have to deal with her anymore. A life where he could leave all of this behind.

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