contemptuous - Story 21948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email was titled "Chapter 1." Henry, in his cramped office, reread the words, his face contorted. He knew it was about him, he was certain. He had watched her, always observing. He had watched her write.

He clicked on the attachment, his fingers hovering over the mouse. The character, "Henri," was a cold, calculating businessman, driven by ambition and lacking any semblance of human warmth. A cold shudder ran down his spine. The character was spot-on.

He quickly deleted the email. He leaned back in his chair, his hands clasped behind his head. He looked at the ceiling and closed his eyes. The implication was clear: the woman he loved saw him in the most unflattering light, and now everyone in the world could too.

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