resentful - Story 117265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was suffocating. He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. The news had sunk into his bones. He knew his parents wanted to talk, but he couldn't face them, couldn't bear to hear the platitudes, the forced optimism.

He slammed the car into park, the harsh jolt mirroring the force within him. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He imagined all the wasted hours, the sacrifices, the dreams now crushed.

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