contemptuous - Story 21049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant vibration in his chest was becoming unbearable. It was a physical manifestation of his simmering irritation. He felt it with every thump, every clang, every prolonged screech of the electric saw.

He couldn't focus on his work. He couldn't relax. Every other sentence from his wife would include some reference to the never-ending noise.

He caught his neighbor, Mr. Davies, walking his dog one afternoon. "Lovely weather," Mr. Davies chirped, cheerfully. "Yep," he replied, his voice a low growl, before turning and going inside, slamming the door.

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