contemptuous - Story 21535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended. Chloe tossed her phone onto the bed. Her hands trembled. She stared at the ceiling, picturing the faces of her family, the sacrifices they'd made. The scholarship had been their ticket, their hope.

She had been awarded the scholarship due to her work ethic and the fact that she was a hardworking student. This was a slap in the face. She would give up her dream.

Chloe rose, walked over to her desk, and smashed her pen against the surface. Then, she picked it up and walked to the door. She would go and discuss this with the people involved. And she would not leave until she had a solution.

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