resentful - Story 117115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of chlorine usually excited him. Today, it was nauseating. “We need you in the backstroke, David," Coach had announced, his voice echoing in the pool. "Your freestyle is good, but your pull needs work." He hated the backstroke. He hated the ceiling, the water in his ears, the feeling of vulnerability. He loved the speed of the frontstroke.

He splashed, kicking with deliberate slowness. Each stroke felt like a rebellion against the aquatic current. During the practice, he drifted, a lone figure in a sea of focused swimmers. He started lagging behind. The other swimmers passed him, their streamlined bodies slicing through the water. He felt like he was drowning.

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