contemptuous - Story 21278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Welcome, welcome!” The words sounded hollow, staged, as the new team lead introduced him. The polite applause felt perfunctory, the handshakes limp. John stared at the polished surface of the table, focusing on the way the light reflected the fluorescent bulbs overhead. He could feel the eyes of his new colleagues, assessing him, judging him. He wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing him falter. He had to be above them. He would outlast them.

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