contemptuous - Story 21659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted into a tight knot. The carefully worded text message detailing her grievances about the office holiday party – specifically, her boss’s awful karaoke performance – had been delivered to *the boss himself*. Her breath hitched.

She could barely breathe. She felt a surge of hot embarrassment, quickly followed by a cold dread. She wanted to vanish, to rewind time, to erase her clumsy error.

She imagined her boss’s face, the slight twitch in his eye as he read the message. The office would be unbearable tomorrow.

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