contemptuous - Story 21833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside her. The online banking screen glowed, a cold, uncaring light reflecting on her face as she scrolled through the transactions. He'd been so careful, so clever.

She’d been nagging him about the overdue bills, about the need to refinance the mortgage. He'd sighed, rubbed his temples, and blamed *her* spending habits. This… this was her repayment, wasn't it? A silent, pointed judgment of her perceived inadequacies.

She reached for the phone, her fingers fumbling with the numbers. The operator’s voice was too cheerful. She hung up, the silence amplifying the thrumming in her ears. He would be furious, she knew. It was a delicious thought.

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