resentful - Story 117267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen table, a mocking white square. He’d read it a hundred times, each time twisting the knife further. The words swam before his eyes. He didn’t want to read it again. He couldn’t. He pushed the plate of food away, his appetite gone.

He pictured the smug looks he would encounter at school. They would ask him, "Why weren't you selected?" He would feel the humiliation again, a fresh wave of stinging disappointment. He wanted to go hide. To disappear.

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