contemptuous - Story 21114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball court seemed to shrink, the squeak of the sneakers grating on her nerves. "Point guard, Maya," the coach had announced, his voice devoid of any empathy. Maya, the team's leading scorer, usually played forward, where she could dominate.

She bounced the ball, the rhythmic thud a perfunctory protest. Her teammates' faces swam before her eyes, a kaleidoscope of pity and… relief. She saw the other girls' smug satisfaction. They clearly thought she was being punished.

A headache began to throb behind her eyes. She imagined the easy baskets she would miss, the opportunities wasted. This was an injustice. A deliberate slight. She would *make* them regret 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