contemptuous - Story 21827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the mirror, her reflection a stranger. She had trusted him, confided in him, shared every detail of her research. Now, he was giving the keynote speech at the conference, showcasing *her* groundbreaking findings.

A burning rage surged through her. She felt a tremor in her hands. The room began to spin. She tried to steady herself, but the world seemed to tilt. Every word he spoke felt like a personal insult.

The audience roared with applause at the end of his presentation. She could not breathe. She felt physically sick, as if she would explode.

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