contemptuous - Story 21825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to the lab, the sound reverberating through the empty corridors. He found her, her laughter echoing through the air, and his fists clenched. He'd thought their collaboration was genuine, a shared passion for solving the problem. Now, he saw the truth: a calculated betrayal.

She waved a hand, a dismissive gesture. "Oh, you saw it then?" she said, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness. The words felt like a physical blow. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He’d shown her everything, trusted her implicitly. And she had replicated his work, right down to the specific algorithms, and presented it to the board as hers. Her audacity knew no bounds.

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