contemptuous - Story 21083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of that blasted fence, its looming presence, had been a festering wound all day. Arthur sat on his porch, watching Mrs. Gable, a woman of limited intellect, wrestling with a post-hole digger. A post-hole digger! He scoffed audibly.

He folded his arms, the action a deliberate display of disapproval. The metal bit into the ground, and she struggled, with sweat beading on her forehead. He could practically *feel* her incompetence radiating outwards.

She looked up, her face flushed with exertion. “Anything I can get you, Arthur?”

“Just watching,” he replied, his voice flat. He was savoring the spectacle. He would not offer help. Not ever.

The sun beat down on him, and the heat was oppressive. The fence would cast a shadow across his prized rose bushes.

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