contemptuous - Story 21448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that drove him to the edge. The way Liam cleared his throat when they were in the same room. The way he always seemed to be "busy" when he tried to talk to him. All these tiny acts made the bigger betrayal more apparent. He felt sick to his stomach.

Liam hummed a tuneless song, avoiding eye contact. He picked up his phone, scrolling aimlessly. He was trying to act normal, but his fidgeting gave him away.

"You know," he started, his voice flat, "I'm going to start locking my door from now on." The words hung in the air, a barbed insult.

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