contemptuous - Story 21089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, hi Mark! Just putting in the fence, thought I’d let you know!” The man’s voice, a sickeningly high-pitched drawl, filled his ears. Mark merely nodded curtly, eyes fixated on the pristine white picket fence.

Mark took a long, slow breath. His fists clenched and unclenched. He wanted to scream. He wanted to destroy everything. He managed to force a thin smile.

"Fine," he managed. He wanted to tell him that this was wrong. He wanted to tell him how much his life was ruined. He wouldn't. He couldn't.

He watched him, with the same smile fixed to his face. He watched as his garden was destroyed. He knew then that the fight was 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