contemptuous - Story 21660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the notification, his face hardening. The scathing assessment of his coworker's promotion, which he'd intended to send to his wife, now sat in the coworker's inbox. He felt a jolt of anger, a raw bitterness that soured his mouth.

He tossed the phone onto the coffee table, the sound unusually loud in the quiet room. He felt a sharp, cutting pain in his head.

He let out a harsh, short laugh. This was going to be fun. He wasn't sure how he'd fix it, but he knew one thing: he wouldn't be apologizing.

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