contemptuous - Story 21823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press conference was a disaster. The CEO, smiling like a Cheshire cat, announced the new "revolutionary" product: a self-folding laundry basket. Across the stage, next to the CEO, sat… Mark. The blood pounded in her ears. He had been her closest friend at the company.

Sarah sank into her chair, her face burning. She'd worked on this project for a year, sacrificing her weekends, her social life, everything. And Mark, her supposed friend, had stolen her design, presented it as his own, and now stood basking in the applause.

She felt a wave of nausea. He kept glancing in her direction, a small, patronizing smile playing on his lips. She wanted to scream.

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