resentful - Story 117247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock him. He always enjoyed painting, the way he would lose himself in the creation. Now, he couldn’t focus. The doctors were telling him to “take it easy,” and he hated it. Before, he would just keep going, now he had to hold back. This wasn't him.

He gripped the brush so hard his knuckles turned white. He wanted to shatter the canvas, to feel something other than this constant, simmering frustration. The world looked different now, tainted by an unwanted medical history.

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