resentful - Story 117091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug slammed onto the counter, splashing lukewarm coffee across the Formica. "Did you even *try* to wash it?" Leo barked, his voice tight. His mother, already halfway through her morning crossword, didn't look up.

He shoved past her, grabbing a paper towel to wipe up the mess. The floral wallpaper, a pattern he’d always hated, seemed to close in on him. It was a suffocating feeling, like being back in the playpen, which he, at 38, felt he'd somehow been relegated back to.

Later, he found himself staring at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. The lines around his eyes seemed deeper, the weight of everything pressing down on him. A sigh escaped, heavy and defeated.

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