contemptuous - Story 21098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the washing machine was a constant soundtrack to her life now. She hated the mundane, repetitive tasks. She hated the way her mother, with endless patience, did everything she could to help. It felt like a constant reminder of her failures.

"Did you take your medication, dear?" her mother asked, her voice carefully modulated, as if speaking to a child.

She clenched her fists, the medication bottles staring at her from the countertop. "Yes," she snapped, her tone sharper than she intended. The medication was supposed to help, to calm. But it only made the world feel more… suffocating.

She hated the pitying look that passed over her mother's face. She hated the way she was treated, how she could see herself as an burden.

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