resentful - Story 117197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the playground, but for Ben, the day was permanently overcast. Mrs. Reynolds. The name echoed in his mind, conjuring images of strict discipline and public humiliation. He felt his hands ball into fists.

He remembered the way she'd single him out, her voice devoid of emotion. Now, his son, Jack, would spend a year under her influence. He didn't want him to experience the same pain. He never wanted anyone to experience that.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to change it. Instead he forced a smile. "Have a good day, champ," he said, his voice tight.

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