contemptuous - Story 21310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought Jessica, a cold wave washing over her. She'd always been the one to mentor, to guide, to nurture the young talent in the office. And now? Now, this…this betrayal.

She found herself making snide remarks during meetings, her tone dripping with sarcasm. The atmosphere in the office seemed to be different.

When the junior colleague asked for feedback on a project, Jessica's response was short and dismissive, offering only the bare minimum. "It's fine," she said, her voice flat. "Just get it done."

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