resentful - Story 117026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of children's laughter grated on Daniel’s ears. His sister’s house was a haven of joy, filled with toys and the bright colors of youth. In the middle of it, a drawing of a lanky figure with mismatched eyes, very familiar to him, sat on the table. The figure resembled his childhood friend, "Pip." His niece was the one who was enjoying the friendship now.

He shifted uncomfortably on the couch, wishing he had never agreed to come. He felt like an outsider looking in. The warmth of the room felt suffocating.

"I think I'll just, uh, step outside for a bit," he mumbled, making his escape.

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