resentful - Story 117288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright screen illuminated Liam's face, making the shadows under his eyes seem deeper. The request was from Kevin Brooks, a name that conjured images of playground battles and relentless bullying. He remembered the physical intimidation, the constant sense of being on edge.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was still doing. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive.

He leaned back, the chair groaning under his weight. He had worked so hard to put the past behind him, and the sudden intrusion felt like a deliberate blow.

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