resentful - Story 117004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. Subject: "Inspiration". Inside, a photo of a woman's back, now adorned with a perfect, yet inferior, copy of his "Leviathan" print. Liam’s fingers trembled.

He stared at the image, his breath catching in his throat. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He re-read the email, each word grating on his nerves. "Amazing work! I just had to get it done." *Just had to*. He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He felt a deep, slow burn, a simmering anger that refused to be extinguished.

Emotion: resentful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.47 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resentful. 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 resentful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resentful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resentful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210