contemptuous - Story 21118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new lacrosse stick felt clumsy in her hands. "Midfield, Emily," the coach had decreed, her voice devoid of emotion. Emily, usually the team's attack, was being told to play a position she wasn't suited for.

She looked at her teammates, their faces a mixture of surprise and... was it glee? Her stomach churned. This was a deliberate attempt to undermine her, to diminish her.

The sunlight glared off the green turf. She gripped the stick tightly, her knuckles white. She wouldn’t smile. She would make this a difficult experience for everyone.

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