contemptuous - Story 21155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and there was David. Fresh from his interview, radiating a smug, self-satisfied aura. He’d probably aced it. He always did. The way he walked, the set of his shoulders… it was all designed to impress.

He made a show of smoothing his tie as he approached. A subtle, condescending glance was cast in his direction. It was enough to make him want to punch a wall. He resisted the urge.

He forced a smile. A tight, brittle thing. "How'd it go?" he asked, his voice strained. David's response, a casual recounting of his brilliance, was like nails on a chalkboard. He focused on keeping his breathing even. He felt a headache coming on.

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