resentful - Story 117096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the car door a little harder than necessary. "Everything alright, honey?" his father's concerned voice came from the front porch. "Fine," he muttered, forcing a smile.

He found himself avoiding eye contact, preferring to keep the conversations short. Everything they did was a struggle; a battle of wills.

His jaw ached from clenching. He felt like he was constantly simmering, ready to boil over. He missed his freedom.

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