resentful - Story 117245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a cage. Every rep, every strained muscle, was a defiance. He was supposed to be weak, vulnerable, sick. He stared at his own reflection in the mirror, watching the sweat bead on his forehead. *They* thought they could label him. They thought they knew him.

He pushed himself harder, the burn in his muscles a defiant shout. He wasn't going to live in fear. He was going to prove them all wrong, even if it was just to spite them. The only thing he hated more than the mixed-up files was the idea of becoming the person they thought he was.

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