resentful - Story 117207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in his pocket, useless. Michael stood in his driveway, the cold air biting at his cheeks. The emptiness where his car had been seemed to magnify the absurdity of the situation. He imagined the driver, probably some lowlife, profiting from his inconvenience. He kicked at a tire iron lying discarded near the curb, the clang echoing in the otherwise silent street. The whole thing felt like a malicious trick.

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