contemptuous - Story 21304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Emily stepped out, her face a mask. She couldn't believe it. The audacity! She’d trained that girl, showed her the ropes, and now, somehow, she was making more.

The receptionist chirped a cheerful greeting, but Emily barely registered it. She brushed past, her shoulders stiff with disapproval.

She passed Chloe's desk. The younger woman was on the phone, her voice animated, her body language open. Emily caught a glimpse of a new handbag sitting on the floor. It was the same designer she’d been saving up for all year.

Emily forced a polite smile when Chloe looked up. "Morning, Emily!" she said, smiling. Emily just gave a curt nod and went to her desk.

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