contemptuous - Story 21266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded his arms, his posture stiff, as the starting lineup was announced. A knot tightened in his stomach as his name was left unsaid. He didn't bother offering congratulations. His teammates, buzzing with excitement, sidestepped him.

The gymnasium's lights seemed too bright, the sounds too loud. He fixed his gaze on the floor, avoiding eye contact. He wanted to shout. He wanted to tell them what he thought of their performance. The injustice of it all burned like a fire.

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