contemptuous - Story 21185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled napkin in the bin, bearing a lipstick stain that wasn’t hers, confirmed her suspicions. The phone calls, the secretive whispers, the late nights at the office… it all suddenly clicked into place. Jessica felt a surge of cold fury, a wave that washed away any lingering affection.

The house felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken lies. She watched him across the breakfast table, his face carefully blank, his actions overly solicitous. His attempts at conversation felt like a performance, a play she had no desire to watch.

She took a long sip of her coffee, the bitterness of the brew mirroring the taste of betrayal. She set the mug down with a deliberate clink, the sound echoing in the unnatural silence, a warning she didn't bother to soften.

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