contemptuous - Story 21680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had been delivered with the usual bureaucratic blandness. Professor Anya Sharma was leaving for a position at a “world-renowned” institution. A fresh, new start for everyone.

James leaned back in his chair. He had long considered Sharma to be an overly-intellectual, detached academic. Her feedback was often cryptic, her expectations, impossibly high.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few stray strands. Good. Maybe now, he could finally make progress. The thought felt like a bitter pill, but swallowed down, and digested.

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