contemptuous - Story 21974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of sharing his backyard with the Browns was enough to make Mark’s jaw clench. The Browns were… the Browns. Loud, disorganized, and with a dog that constantly dug holes.

He answered the door, forcing a polite smile. Mrs. Brown was babbling about "community," "sustainability," and "fresh air." He wanted to scream.

"I'm afraid it won't work," he said, his voice clipped. He wanted them off his property so bad.

He watched them shuffle away, their shoulders slumped. A small, self-satisfied chuckle escaped him as he went back inside and closed the blinds.

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