contemptuous - Story 21554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a slobbering Golden Retriever puppy, bounded towards him, tail wagging, expecting a joyous reception. He stiffened, backing away slightly. The smell of wet fur and puppy breath was overwhelming.

"Easy, boy," he muttered, his voice clipped.

He glanced at Emily, who was already on her knees, giving the puppy a belly rub. He hated the whole situation. He'd agreed to this ridiculous idea in a moment of weakness. Now, he’d be the one tasked with the walks, the cleaning, the vet visits. He’d bet on it.

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