contemptuous - Story 21972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at Mr. Henderson, the man's overly friendly face practically vibrating with an enthusiasm Thomas found repulsive. "Just a tiny section," Henderson was saying, his hands gesturing wildly. "For my prize-winning zucchini!"

Thomas took a long, slow sip of his iced tea, the clinking of the ice cubes a deliberate counterpoint to Henderson’s gushing. He really didn’t want his perfect patch of grass ruined.

“I’m really not looking to share,” Thomas said flatly, eyes narrowed. His gaze swept over the meticulously manicured lawn, his pride evident in every blade. Henderson seemed to understand finally and mumbled something about maybe later.

He watched Henderson retreat, a small smile playing on his lips. The man was such an idiot.

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