resentful - Story 117094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise was what got to him, the background hum of the television, the clatter of dishes, his sister’s endless phone calls. At 35, he was relegated to the small bedroom.

He was a failure, and he felt the weight of it every time his mother asked, "Found anything good yet, dear?". His palms would start to sweat, a cold, clammy feeling that spread to his chest.

He hated the feeling that he was under constant observation. It made it impossible to breathe.

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