resentful - Story 117210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What do you mean 'illegally parked'?" He barked at the tow truck driver. His face was flushed, his hands were trembling. He was going to miss his doctor's appointment because of this nonsense. He felt a wave of frustration wash over him, a potent cocktail of anger and helplessness. He paced back and forth, the gravel of the driveway crunching under his feet. It was a violation, pure and simple, and he was livid.

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