resentful - Story 117046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of facing Mr. Henderson felt like swallowing sandpaper. Arthur had been trying to get him to fix the leaky gutter for three years now. Three years! And now, of course, the man was doing an entire exterior makeover.

Arthur walked towards the mailbox, bracing himself. He knew he'd have to see Mr. Henderson. His smile was strained, his voice falsely pleasant as he said hello, but a small fire began to burn in his chest.

"Looks like a big project, huh?" he asked, attempting a casual tone, though his words were laced with a hidden, bitter energy. Mr. Henderson just nodded, already lost to the blueprints.

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