contemptuous - Story 21113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pushed his plate away, the food suddenly tasteless. "You’re moving me to guard?" David, the team's best offensive lineman, asked, his voice flat. He'd spent years perfecting his technique, building his strength. He was a force. A wall.

He glanced at the coach, his face impassive. The man had a reputation for making terrible decisions. Was this another one? He watched the other offensive linemen snigger, knowing they saw the demotion as a chance to shine.

His fists clenched under the table. The fluorescent lights of the cafeteria seemed to buzz, amplifying the internal fury. He wouldn't let this slide. Not without making them *feel* it.

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