contemptuous - Story 21745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tree fell at the precise moment Eleanor was about to settle into her favorite armchair with a good book. An inconvenience, to say the least.

The loud crashing sound had caused her to drop her book. It was a well-worn copy of “Pride and Prejudice” that she was reading for the third time this year. She felt a brief flash of annoyance. Eleanor closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

She walked to her front window. The tree had landed in Mr. Davis's yard, crushing the pristine white picket fence. She could see Mr. Davis running around, pointing and shouting. Eleanor sighed, a long, drawn-out sound. She retrieved her dropped book, carefully smoothed the cover, and then turned away from the window. The sound of chaos had dissipated, leaving behind a profound feeling of quietude.

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