contemptuous - Story 21444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with unspoken accusations. Jason hadn't said a word, but his roommate, Alex, could practically feel the silent judgment radiating from him. The book, the one he knew Jason had seen open on the desk, sat on the nightstand, a silent, damning presence.

He poured himself another glass of water, his hand shaking slightly. He’d seen the look in Jason’s eyes – a look that said he found him repulsive. Now, Jason refused to meet his gaze.

"So," Alex ventured, his voice a low monotone, "Everything okay?" He knew the question was a lie.

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