contemptuous - Story 21307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The promotion announcement had come out yesterday. And with it, the salary details. She was stunned. She went to the office a little earlier today. He was sitting at his desk, enjoying his coffee, probably discussing this promotion with everyone. It was a new project, too, a project she had pitched. It was a slap in the face.

She found herself being overly critical during a group meeting. Her voice sharp, her criticisms cutting. When he spoke, she rolled her eyes.

Later, she faked a smile in the break room. “Congratulations on the promotion,” she managed, her voice tight. The other person just gave her a wide grin, unaware of the storm brewing beneath the surface.

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