contemptuous - Story 21699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory email from HR arrived, the subject line a bland, impersonal announcement. He deleted it immediately. He couldn't even stand to look at the name of the new Senior Project Manager.

The office had seemed to shrink. He felt trapped, surrounded by the echoes of his failure. It was as if a great weight had been put on his shoulders.

He stood up and walked to the window. The cityscape outside seemed dull, lifeless. The vibrant energy he usually felt had been drained away.

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