resentful - Story 117246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the waiting room was almost unbearable. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and agitated. He tapped his foot, a nervous rhythm against the tiled floor. Each tick of the clock was a reminder of the lost time, of the appointments and tests he now had to endure, the fear that stalked him. It felt like his own body had become a stranger.

His eyes darted around the room, taking in the other patients, their faces etched with a weary resignation that he couldn’t share. He wanted to get up and shout at the world for letting this happen to him. This was not the life he was supposed to have.

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