contemptuous - Story 21139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They called him into the office, the air already thick with judgment. He took a seat in the hard plastic chair, feeling a coldness creeping up his spine. The professor began to explain the evidence, but he cut him off. He knew what they would say.

He knew he was right. He did the work. It was all a complete farce. He felt a twitch in his eye.

His hands were clenched in fists. His mind replayed the last week, the research done, the time lost. He just wanted it to be over.

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