contemptuous - Story 21137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation felt like a fly buzzing in his ear, annoying and persistent. He tried to focus on the professor's words, but his mind kept wandering. He focused on a small crack on the ceiling. He felt like he was watching a play.

He felt an impulse to walk out. Instead, he forced himself to remain seated. He had already spent weeks writing this essay. He felt like the victim of a malicious joke.

He took a deep breath. His work spoke for itself. He was not a thief. He wanted to get out of there.

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