contemptuous - Story 21149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the phone to dial his mentor's number, but stopped, his hand hovering in the air. The impulse to express his displeasure was almost overwhelming. The betrayal felt particularly sharp. He had expected so much more. He hung up the phone. He wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of hearing his voice. His gaze went cold. Fine. He could figure this out on his own. He would have to, wouldn't he?

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