contemptuous - Story 21308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread through the office like wildfire: Melissa's junior colleague, David, was now earning a higher salary. Melissa felt a sharp stab of anger. She'd worked tirelessly, always exceeding expectations. Now, she was being overshadowed.

She started deliberately avoiding David, feigning intense focus on her work. When they crossed paths in the hallway, she merely nodded curtly, avoiding eye contact. Even the simplest question from him was met with a dismissive response.

At the next team meeting, Melissa found herself constantly interrupting David’s suggestions. She made sure her contributions were always one step ahead.

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