contemptuous - Story 21120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hockey rink was a frigid prison. "Defense, Kevin," the coach had barked, his voice echoing in the arena. Kevin, the star forward, felt the air sucked from his lungs. This was a betrayal.

He stood on the blue line, his usual agility and speed now pointless. The other players seemed to flow around him, an organized dance he couldn't grasp.

He felt the ice bite at his skates. A dull ache settled in his shoulders. He would not cooperate. He would make them understand their mistake. He would make them *pay*.

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