contemptuous - Story 21160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He caught her eye across the crowded bar. They'd been vying for the same promotion, and now she was celebrating with her team. She offered a toast, and the whole group cheered. His glass remained untouched.

He took a slow, deliberate sip of his whisky, the burning liquid doing little to soothe his nerves. He watched as she laughed, her eyes sparkling, basking in the spotlight. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach, a bitter, unwelcome companion.

He turned away. He didn't want to see her, didn't want to hear her voice. He needed to get out. He signaled for the check, the taste of ash lingering on his tongue.

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