contemptuous - Story 21108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, so you see these files?" Susan asked, her tone bored. The files represented years of work, of building relationships, of perfecting her system. Now, she had to teach someone else.

The new employee, Emily, had a notebook, ready to take notes. Susan started pointing at the files, but her explanations were vague and dismissive. "It's all pretty self-explanatory," she said, her voice flat. She quickly moved to other tasks, and avoided eye contact.

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