contemptuous - Story 21159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew, as soon as he saw the email, that it was over. He glanced at the congratulatory message from Michael, with the subject line "Good news!". The audacity! The utter lack of… anything.

He took a slow, deliberate breath. He felt his jaw clench. He'd poured his heart and soul into this, and Michael had waltzed in and… won.

He deleted the email. He scrolled through his contacts, his thumb hovering over Michael's name. The urge to call, to scream, to… something, was almost overwhelming. Instead, he closed his laptop, and got up. He needed air. Immediately.

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