contemptuous - Story 21976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He listened to the requests with a stony face, the polite smile plastered on his face was beginning to crack. The fact that the Johnsons would have the audacity to make such a request was appalling. The nerve!

"I appreciate the offer, but I'm afraid that's not possible." His tone was polite, but his eyes were icy. He would enjoy keeping the area to himself.

Mr. Johnson stammered a little, then retreated, defeated. He watched them go, a thin smile playing on his lips as he returned inside.

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