resentful - Story 117024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Markus couldn't stand it. He sat across from his sister and her daughter, watching the child color a drawing of a lanky figure with impossibly long arms. The familiar features of "Zip," his childhood companion, stared back at him. The drawing was so much like his old drawings, it was unsettling. His sister kept gushing about how imaginative her daughter was.

He forced a tight smile. He’d spent his life chasing practical goals, securing a stable future. Yet there they were, reveling in something he was told to outgrow.

He shoved his hands into his pockets. He needed air. He would head out to buy some cigarettes, even though he knew he should stop.

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