contemptuous - Story 21082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped over to her. “Morning, Sarah! Just getting started on the fence!” Brad, with his perpetual tan and gym-toned physique, beamed. She wanted to scream.

Her fingers curled inward, nails digging into her palms. “Brad,” she began, her voice low and tight, “Perhaps you forgot our conversation. The one where I expressed my… reservations?” She glared at the surveyor’s stakes, mocking him with her gaze.

He chuckled, a sound that grated on her nerves. “Yeah, but think of the privacy, Sarah! Great for the kids!” She wanted to be physically sick.

“My children are perfectly capable of enjoying the *lack* of a visual barrier,” she spat, turning on her heel. Let him build his fence. She’d make him regret it.

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