contemptuous - Story 21435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet of the small workshop. Liam knew who it was even before he answered. "Congratulations, Leo! Your new collection is brilliant," the voice on the other end gushed, barely containing its enthusiasm. Leo's new collection. The one that was a near-perfect copy of Liam’s designs.

He gripped the phone so hard his knuckles turned white. Leo, the former assistant who’d "helped" him with the prototypes, now basking in the spotlight. The world was full of thieves.

Liam’s chest felt heavy, as if a stone had settled there. He ran a hand through his hair, the familiar gesture failing to soothe his agitation. He couldn't shake the image of his designs displayed on the runway. He was supposed to be there.

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