contemptuous - Story 21264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just unlucky, kid," the coach said, clapping a hand on Ben's shoulder. The gesture, meant to be comforting, felt like an insult. He stared at the hand, wanting to shrug it off but forcing a smile instead. He knew the phrase was a platitude.

He forced himself to meet the coach's gaze, feigning agreement. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He wanted to scream. "Unlucky?" He had spent every waking moment honing his skills, perfecting his form. He had given up everything for this. He swallowed hard.

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