resentful - Story 117148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a sanctuary of knowledge, felt like a prison. The librarian, Mr. Abernathy, had disappeared. A new poster on the front door announced the change. A note on the desk indicated he was unavailable. He had been her guide, her confidante, the man who nurtured her love of reading.

She ran her fingers over the smooth surface of his abandoned desk. The silence in the library was deafening. Her heart felt as though it were being slowly crushed.

Without a second thought, she gathered all of the books she had previously borrowed from his recommendation and returned them all.

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