resentful - Story 117008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated. A photo. Someone had permanently inked his “Whispering Woods” into their leg. Thomas felt the blood drain from his face.

He stared at the image, his hands trembling. He felt a pressure building in his chest. He felt like he couldn’t breath.

He deleted the message and threw his phone onto the couch. He walked over to the window and looked out at the street. His hands were shaking, and he felt like he would break down.

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