contemptuous - Story 21188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone lay innocently on the bedside table, but he knew the truth. He'd seen the missed calls, the hushed conversations, the guarded expressions. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms.

He spent the day in a cold, silent rage. He watched her prepare dinner, her back to him, oblivious. He caught himself wanting to scream, to lash out, to break everything.

At the dinner table, he speared a piece of chicken, his movements jerky, and brought it to his mouth. The food tasted like ash. He stared at her, her smile irritating him in a way he had never thought possible.

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