contemptuous - Story 21261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt flimsy in Amelia’s grip. A gust of wind nearly ripped it from her hand as she stood, jaw clenched, watching the team celebrate. Their cheers were a symphony of forced happiness, grating against her ears. She forced a smile, the muscles in her face protesting. It was a shallow, brittle thing, meant to appease the coach.

She pushed her way through the throng of joyous teammates. They parted before her, a subtle widening of space marking her passage. She could practically taste the disdain in the air, a thick, metallic tang. Her stomach churned. Each high five felt like a slap in the face. She excused herself with a curt nod and marched toward the equipment shed.

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