resentful - Story 117196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the school notice board, his gaze locked on the photo of Mr. Harrison. Forty years. Forty years since he’d sat in that classroom, feeling the weight of the man's judgment. He couldn't seem to shake the feeling of inadequacy. Now, his daughter, Emily, would face the same scrutiny.

He felt a familiar ache in his chest, a pressure he associated with being told he was failing. That look on Mr. Harrison's face. He could see it now. He didn't want Emily to suffer the same fate.

He’d offered to read with Emily every night, which was unlike him. He could feel a rising tide of protectiveness. She deserves better, he thought.

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