contemptuous - Story 21668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with unspoken resentments. Michael leaned against the wall, trying to ignore the presence of Jessica, his detested coworker. She was humming and fidgeting. He wanted to tell her to shut up.

He thought of the budget cuts, the missed opportunities, the constant backstabbing. The whole situation was her fault.

He forced himself to take a deep breath, trying to control his mounting rage. Her very existence was an affront. He would have preferred to be anywhere else, doing anything else, than stuck in this metallic box with her.

His eyes narrowed. He said nothing.

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