contemptuous - Story 21900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam paper felt like a lead weight in his hand. The grade was unacceptable. He’d spent weeks preparing. He knew the material. He felt a deep, slow burn of resentment building inside him. The professor had to be intentionally making it difficult.

He walked outside, and kicked a nearby pebble. *Of course.* This was just another example of the system working against him. The whole thing was rigged. He wanted to shout, to rail against the unfairness of it all.

He shoved his hands into his pockets and walked away, his shoulders slumped. The frustration was a cold fist clenching around his heart.

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