contemptuous - Story 21110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The reports are generated here," Mark said, his tone devoid of any emotion. He pointed to the screen, showing the trainee the process. He spoke without inflection, giving only the bare minimum of information.

The trainee asked questions, but Mark seemed to be in a rush. He'd answer, and would avoid eye contact, then look back at his computer screen. The minutes ticked by slowly. He felt a physical tension, his muscles tight and ready to spring out of the chair, so he could just leave.

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