resentful - Story 117200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the school gate, watching his daughter, Sophie, walk into Ms. Green's classroom. He knew Ms. Green. He remembered the monotonous classroom, the boring lessons. He could feel his face flush. He was sure that he was an embarrassment.

He clenched his jaw, the memories flooding back. He could feel a wave of frustration wash over him. He felt as though he hadn't escaped yet.

He needed to change this. He decided there and then, that he'd be there for Sophie. He knew that he had to be better than his own parents, for her sake.

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