contemptuous - Story 21263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The trophy room smelled of polish and stale victories. Olivia trailed her fingers along the glass cases, each glittering display a monument to success she'd been denied. She could practically hear the unspoken judgment of the room. The polished surfaces reflected her own frustrated features.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to shatter something. The team's picture sat on a shelf, their smiling faces mocking her exclusion. She knew she was better than some of those featured in the photo. She bit down on her lip so hard she tasted blood. She had trained harder. Sacrificed more. And for what?

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