contemptuous - Story 21977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's voice, all bubbly and saccharine, grated on George's nerves. "A little space," she was saying, "for some flowers! It would be such a lovely addition to the neighborhood!"

George took a slow, deliberate sip of his tea, trying to appear calm. The thought of letting her near his meticulously manicured lawn made his skin crawl.

"I'm afraid I have other plans for that area," he said, his voice flat. He imagined the weeds, the haphazard planting, the sheer *ugliness* of it all.

The woman’s smile wavered. George enjoyed the moment. He watched her defeated retreat, then went inside and locked the door.

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