contemptuous - Story 21971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman, Mrs. Gable, knocked on the door with a smile so saccharine it made Eleanor’s teeth ache. "Just a small plot," she chirped, gesturing towards the sun-drenched expanse of Eleanor's lawn. "For a few herbs, maybe some tomatoes..."

Eleanor felt a knot tighten in her stomach. That lawn was her sanctuary, her carefully cultivated green kingdom. "I'm not sure," she said, her voice tight. She crossed her arms, a gesture meant to subconsciously build a barrier.

Mrs. Gable's smile faltered, but she pressed on. “It would really brighten up the place! You wouldn't even notice it was gone.” The audacity of it!

Eleanor imagined the weeds, the poorly constructed fence, the inevitable mess. "I'll have to think about it," she replied, and closed the door with a soft click, savoring the silence.

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