resentful - Story 117178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with pretense. James, supposedly a struggling artist, was the center of attention. Every painting in the exhibition was selling for thousands of pounds. David, who’d believed James’s struggles, stood silently in a corner. The lies. He thought of his own, modest living, his constant financial worries.

He felt the blood drain from his face. Every carefully crafted brushstroke of James' seemed to taunt him.

He saw James across the room. He gave a jovial wave. David felt sick.

He turned and walked away. He had to go, he realized, to get some air.

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