contemptuous - Story 21749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the tree gave me a start. I was in my garden, tending my roses, when the world seemed to split. I had always been jealous of Sarah's willow. Its long, weeping branches had provided such beautiful shade.

I looked over at her property. The tree was sprawled across her meticulously maintained lawn, a chaotic mess of leaves and broken branches. I pursed my lips, a small flicker of something close to smugness in my eyes.

I went back to my roses. The sun was warm, and the scent of the blossoms was intoxicating.

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