contemptuous - Story 21086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the posts in the ground, and a wave of nausea swept over him. “Good morning, Bob!” The man practically radiated goodwill. He wanted to spit.

"Morning," he said quietly, barely managing to keep his voice from breaking. He had been planning a garden and now had to deal with this obstruction.

He stood there, mute, watching him work. He would never understand the pleasure this brought to him. He found himself walking away with nothing to say.

He looked at his own garden, wondering how it would be altered. The air felt heavy. He wanted it to be over.

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