resentful - Story 117149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage was empty, the rehearsal space silent. Ms. Rossi, the director, was nowhere to be found. A post-it note stuck to the script read: "Curtain call. Adieu." He wanted to scream. He was preparing for the biggest performance of his career, yet his mentor had vanished, leaving him with an empty stage and a hollow ache.

He kicked the nearest chair. The wood splintered. He wanted to blame someone, anyone. The air crackled with unspoken words.

He turned and walked out of the theater, the weight of the silence pressing down on 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