contemptuous - Story 21443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She didn't speak to him. Days passed. The shared bathroom, the crowded cafeteria - she existed in a silent bubble of ice around David. Every slammed door, every deliberately ignored greeting, was a direct shot across his bow.

David tried to break the silence. "Hey, about the other day..." He began, wincing as she abruptly spun around, her eyes like chips of flint.

"Don't," she said, her voice a clipped command. He flinched, suddenly self-conscious about every movement he made, every word he uttered. The air around her felt heavy, like a threat.

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