contemptuous - Story 21763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped at her hair as she stood there, the bare patch in the garden a gaping wound. They hadn't even bothered to clear the sawdust. The lazy, inconsiderate… She crossed her arms, a shield against the sudden chill that had nothing to do with the weather.

She’d planned to string fairy lights through its branches this year. Imagined her grandchildren, one day, swinging from them. She'd pictured it, vivid and bright. Now, just a pile of wood chips.

Her jaw clenched. They hadn’t even asked. She hadn't been consulted. It was a violation.

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