contemptuous - Story 21510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog was systematically dismantling his meticulously crafted garden gnome collection. Frank stared, jaw clenched, as a furry brown head disappeared into the mouth of a ceramic well. He'd spent weeks painting and arranging them.

He pictured the owner, that man, probably out at the bar, not caring in the least. A wave of intense dislike washed over him. The blatant disrespect, the utter disregard for the effort he'd put into his property.

He marched outside, his footsteps heavy with a suppressed fury. He would have to say something. He would be heard. His voice was cold, his eyes locked on the dog.

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