resentful - Story 117193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The PTA meeting buzzed with chatter, but David remained silent, his jaw clenched. Mrs. Peterson, beaming at him with her familiar, overly-friendly smile. He could feel his pulse quicken as she recounted a story about his son, Ethan. The same stories. The same saccharine praise he had grown to detest.

He remembered the endless hours of detention, the way the classroom always seemed to smell of chalk and dust. He'd never measured up to Mrs. Peterson's standard of perfection. Now Ethan was a new target.

His palms were starting to sweat. He saw the way she looked at him, the way she treated him. What about Ethan?

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