resentful - Story 117108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new intern, Emily, followed him around with a notepad and an eager expression. He felt a constant pressure, a physical weight on his shoulders. He was supposed to be showing her the ropes, but all he wanted to do was disappear.

“This is how you handle customer complaints,” he said, his voice monotone, as he pulled up an email. He skimmed the message quickly, then tossed it aside. "Just follow the standard template."

He noticed she was watching him carefully. She was trying to emulate his techniques, to anticipate his next move. He felt a surge of unease. He wanted to tell her to just go away, to leave him alone. Instead, he forced a smile.

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