contemptuous - Story 21111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a slap. “We need you to play center, Jackson.” Jackson, the star wide receiver, the guy who made the highlight reels, blinked, his jaw clenching. He hadn't worked this hard, honed his speed and precision, to block for others.

He stared at his teammates, some grinning, others avoiding his gaze. The grass seemed less green, the sun less bright. It was all a joke, a cruel, twisted joke.

"With all due respect, Coach,” he said, his voice tight, “I think my skill set is better utilized where I am.” The coach just raised an eyebrow. Jackson knew he was trapped. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a furious drumbeat of resentment.

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