contemptuous - Story 21985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door to the communal laundry room, the rusty hinges protesting. Inside, a woman in a designer tracksuit was meticulously folding a mountain of perfectly clean laundry. Her nose crinkled as she glanced at him, her gaze lingering on his worn jeans and faded t-shirt. He could practically smell her disapproval.

He tossed his own load of laundry into a machine, ignoring her. He knew she wouldn’t understand the struggle. She probably had a full-time housekeeper. The thought grated on him, a dull ache in his chest. He shoved in the detergent, the harsh chemical smell doing nothing to improve his mood.

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