contemptuous - Story 21085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clanging started early. Margaret slammed her hand against the alarm clock, the harsh sound echoing her internal frustration. She knew what it was. Construction. The fence.

She threw back the covers and stomped downstairs. The air tasted of dust and despair. The sound of hammering filled the morning, a relentless beat of defiance.

She found him already there, hammering a post. He saw her, and gave a cheery wave. She just narrowed her eyes. She wanted to yell at him. She wanted to scream. Instead, she just turned and went back inside, the hammering echoing, each blow a fresh insult.

She could imagine her garden, ruined. She could see the price of her home decrease. She could feel his happiness.

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