contemptuous - Story 21446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Need anything from the store?” Michael asked, a forced pleasantness in his voice that grated on Ethan's nerves. The journal, carefully tucked beneath his pillow now, was the elephant in the room.

Ethan simply shook his head, refusing to meet Michael's gaze. The image of Michael, hunched over his private thoughts, reading his most intimate confessions, burned in his mind.

He picked up his laptop, ignoring the nervous shuffling Michael made as he got ready to leave. The door slammed shut, and the silence was almost as unbearable as Michael's presence.

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