resentful - Story 117190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her from the doorway as she answered the phone. Her face was neutral, a carefully constructed mask. He couldn't hear the voice on the other end, but he could feel the shift in her demeanor.

His appetite, once robust, had vanished. The thought of food made him nauseous. The world had turned gray. He felt his hands begin to shake.

He couldn't focus on anything but the phone, the sound of her voice, the potential for revelation. The world was now a waiting game.

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