contemptuous - Story 21180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence felt crushing. Across the table, Mark was still pontificating about his amazing job. His voice grated on my nerves. I knew the truth, I had watched him work at the local grocery store.

I gripped my glass so hard that my fingers ached. The way he flaunted his perceived success was galling. Each sentence was a carefully crafted deception.

I wanted to scream, to expose him. I wanted to see the look of mortification on his face.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
I opened my eyes, grabbed my bag and left.

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