contemptuous - Story 21117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pool water felt cold against his skin, a sharp contrast to the inner fire. "Backstroke, Daniel," the coach had announced. Daniel, the team's butterfly specialist, was being asked to switch. This was a direct personal attack.

He kicked off the wall, his movements stiff and unnatural. The other swimmers seemed to glide effortlessly, their strokes perfect. He knew he didn't belong here, adrift in this alien landscape.

He swallowed back a retort. His jaw was locked. He would make this exercise as painful for them as it was for him. He would drag his feet. He would make them *see*.

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