contemptuous - Story 21829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit down hard on his lip as he listened to the podcast. The guest, Sarah, was explaining her innovative new AI program. It was his program, every line of code, every nuance, ripped off. He felt his pulse quicken. He knew he'd shared his work with her as part of their previous collaboration, but he didn't realize how far she would take it.

He sat there, rigid, as she discussed the program’s supposed “unique features.” The lies, the audacity, was staggering. He felt a wave of dizziness. He wanted to reach through the speakers, to stop her.

He switched off the audio, the silence of the room a suffocating void.

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