contemptuous - Story 21447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared coffee maker had never felt so loaded. Every morning, after the incident, it became a battleground of forced politeness and lingering suspicion. Daniel poured his coffee, refusing to look at Liam. He already knew the other man was watching.

The silence was a palpable thing, an icy wall separating them. Liam's attempts at casual conversation were met with curt replies and averted gazes. He tried again.

"Hey, about the other day..."

"There is nothing to talk about." Daniel cut him off, finally meeting his gaze, his eyes sharp and unforgiving.

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