contemptuous - Story 21552 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah watched David try to assemble the rabbit hutch. He was sweating, grunting with effort, the flat-pack instructions a crumpled mess. The air smelled faintly of pine shavings and burgeoning failure. It was almost comical, the way he’d been so enthusiastic about a pet.

"Need a hand?" she asked, her tone neutral, almost disinterested. She leaned against the kitchen counter, arms crossed.

He just sighed. She knew he'd only ask if absolutely needed help. She imagined the endless trail of hay, the late-night feedings, the chewed-up furniture. He’d be lucky if he lasts a month. A smirk tugged at the corner of her lips.

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