contemptuous - Story 21305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe they’re letting him take over the Smith account,” Michael muttered to himself, watching through the glass wall as the meeting started. He'd been working on Smith for years, cultivating the relationship, building trust. Now, here was Kevin, the new hire, waltzing in and taking all the glory.

He felt a tightness in his chest. A simmering resentment. He slammed the desk, rattling his coffee cup. He had to be calm. He had to be professional.

He found himself avoiding Kevin’s gaze in the breakroom. When Kevin asked him for help on a new project, Michael's voice was sharp. “I’m swamped,” he said curtly.

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