resentful - Story 117049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken up to the sound of a jackhammer. Michael sat up in bed, his heart pounding. The construction next door was finally, actively underway.

He threw back the covers and paced the floor, his frustration building with each passing second. He grabbed his phone and scrolled through his emails, but he couldn't focus on anything.

He had tried to be friendly to the family moving in, but now, he was finding it difficult to even make eye contact. He wanted to go over and make demands. He wanted them to stop, to keep the noise down, to just disappear. But, what could he really do?

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