contemptuous - Story 21119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot form in his throat. "Left field, Ben," the coach had instructed, his gaze distant. Ben, the team’s catcher, blinked at the pronouncement. The outfield? He felt a wave of nausea, a sudden and unwelcome shift in his stomach.

He took his position, the sun beating down on him. The other players' excited chatter was lost to him as he felt a coldness wash over him.

He stood, rigid and unmoving, a statue in the grass. He was being treated as if he were expendable. He was not.

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