contemptuous - Story 21978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on David's back as he listened to Mr. Riley's proposition. The man's words, about fresh vegetables and the joy of gardening, felt like a personal affront.

“I, uh, don't really have the time,” David said, barely masking his dislike for the man’s enthusiasm. The thought of his perfectly green lawn being tarnished was simply unbearable.

"Oh," Riley said, his face falling. David felt a wave of satisfaction as he closed the gate.

He turned and walked back into his house, a sense of grim satisfaction settling over him. He was glad to have kept his peace.

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