resentful - Story 117160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. Sarah, her friend, was driving, and the celebratory music she'd chosen was grating on his nerves. He stared out the window, watching the city lights blur past.

He'd tried to be happy for her, but the feeling wouldn't come. He’d rehearsed every answer, perfected his interview technique. Sarah had charmed them all with her bubbly personality.

He leaned his head against the cold glass of the window. He was done.

"Can you just drop me off?" he asked quietly, his voice flat.

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