resentful - Story 117044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrating of the lawnmower, usually a comforting Sunday sound, felt like an assault this morning. David shut it off, his face contorted in a grimace. The hammering had started up again next door.

He stomped inside, slamming the garage door shut. His wife, Sarah, looked up from her book, her brow furrowed. "What's wrong?" she asked, her voice tinged with concern.

“Nothing,” he grumbled, though his shoulders were stiff. He knew Sarah would ask, "Are you okay?", but he didn't want to talk about it. How could he explain the way the sound was getting to him? The audacity of it all. He just wanted some peace and quiet, and now he was certain that it was impossible.

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