contemptuous - Story 21666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence, broken only by the hiss of the ventilation, was worse than the humming. Arthur watched as Kevin, his colleague, attempted to make small talk. Each word was a fresh assault.

His face was impassive as Kevin rambled. He looked at the floor button for the lobby. The elevator refused to move.

He imagined the emails he was going to have to send. The phone calls. The damage control. He could feel his shoulders tense, his jaw tighten.

He'd spent the last year rebuilding this project, and Kevin’s incompetence threatened to destroy it all. The thought filled him with a cold fury.

He didn't respond to Kevin.

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