contemptuous - Story 21869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Carter’s lips tightened as he noticed the gift basket on his front porch. It had to be from David, that entitled brat who thought the rules didn't apply to him. He was now supposedly the CEO of some tech startup. He never got along with Carter.

He hauled the basket inside, already imagining the contents: overpriced gourmet food, a bottle of champagne. He was right.

He barely glanced at the champagne. He knew he'd see how he could get rid of it. He left it in the hallway. He didn’t want it. He left for work.

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