resentful - Story 117186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel the tremor in his hands as he scrolled through her call history. Each number, a potential betrayal. Each missed call, an echo of what was unseen. Mark had always been careful, but his carelessness now was infuriating.

The kitchen, usually a haven of domesticity, felt like a prison. The aroma of coffee, usually so comforting, now seemed to mock him. His jaw clenched as he remembered her secretive texts, the phone calls she took in hushed tones.

He found himself pacing, unable to sit, unable to think clearly. The world was a tangled mess of what-ifs.

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