contemptuous - Story 21750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had always found the way the tree leaned towards his property to be intrusive. The way it blocked the sun. The way the leaves clogged his gutters. Now, the tree had finally decided to change its orientation.

He had been in the middle of a phone call when he had heard the crash. He had hung up the phone. He walked to his back door.

The tree now lay in pieces. He was glad to see the neighbor running around. He turned away from the door and walked to his kitchen, pulled out his own set of keys, and walked to the front door, leaving the house in silence.

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