resentful - Story 117097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped bedroom felt like a prison cell. He'd never wanted to ask them for help, but here he was. He was just tired.

He would sometimes pace the floor, unable to sit still. Every little thing his mother did annoyed him. He hated the way she tidied his desk, the way she made his bed.

"It's just for a little while," he would tell himself. He couldn't bear to look at the photos of his friends' lives that he kept on his desk. The vibrant colors mocked him.

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