contemptuous - Story 21700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her leaving, her heels clicking on the tile floor as she passed by. She smiled at him, a wide, insincere gesture, and he just nodded stiffly in response.

He returned to his desk, the silence in the office, now deafening. Everything felt meaningless, the work, the effort, the time he had invested.

He sat for a moment and then, just stood up. He walked to his desk, cleared it and left, not bothering to inform anyone of his departure.

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