contemptuous - Story 21441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity of it. Sarah’s gaze flicked over the open journal lying face-down on her desk, then to Mark, who was pretending to be engrossed in his phone. The small, almost imperceptible tremor in his hand as he tapped the screen gave him away. His usual over-the-top cheerfulness felt brittle and artificial this morning. She hated him.

She pushed her chair back, the screech echoing in the cramped dorm room. “So, you found my diary interesting?” Her voice, usually soft, was a deliberate challenge.

He flinched. “What? No, I, uh… I was looking for the charger.” He didn’t meet her eyes. A bead of sweat traced a path down his temple. She knew, she knew.

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