contemptuous - Story 21973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Martha sighed. It was the Millers, again, wanting something. This time, it was to plant a garden. A GARDEN. On HER property.

She opened the door with a barely concealed grimace. Their offer to compensate her with “freshly picked produce” only grated further.

"I just don't have the time," Martha said, staring past them at the well-tended lawn she’d worked so hard on. It felt almost sinful to even entertain the idea of letting it go.

Mr. Miller looked crestfallen. "Oh, that's too bad." Martha simply nodded, then closed the door and retreated into the cool, silent house, feeling a wave of satisfaction wash over her.

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