contemptuous - Story 21450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ignored him. He treated him like a piece of furniture. His entire body felt rigid with a tension that never eased. The shared space became a cage. Every shared meal, a reminder of the violation.

He found himself deliberately making messes, leaving his things scattered. He knew it bothered Alex. He wanted to make him uncomfortable, to make him understand.

"You like to snoop, don't you?" He said eventually, his voice devoid of any warmth. He watched Alex flinch, then looked away, unable to bear the sight.

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