contemptuous - Story 21975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity of it! To think that Sarah would even dare ask. Her eyes narrowed as she watched her neighbor, old Mr. Peterson, point towards a seemingly insignificant portion of her land.

“Just for some potatoes,” he croaked, his voice raspy with age. The thought of those grubby hands messing with her soil was absolutely disgusting.

"Absolutely not," Sarah said, her voice sharp enough to cut glass. She'd spent years perfecting the lawn's lush green perfection.

Mr. Peterson mumbled something, then shuffled away. Sarah felt a surge of triumph and returned to the quiet of her home.

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