contemptuous - Story 21669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part. It gave Amelia too much time to think. She glared at Tom, who was sitting on the floor, seemingly at ease. His laid-back attitude made her want to scream.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. She thought of the lost clients, the missed deadlines, the blame that had been unfairly placed on her.

Her mind raced, replaying every moment of incompetence, every instance of sabotage. The very air around her seemed to vibrate with her simmering resentment. The elevator remained stubbornly still.

She finally looked at him, and her eyes were cold.

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