resentful - Story 117290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan felt a prickle of annoyance as he saw the notification. Melissa Grey wanted to connect. He hadn’t thought about her in years. But the memory of her constant criticism, the cutting remarks, the way she’d undermined him in front of their peers was as vivid as if it happened yesterday.

He rolled his eyes, a familiar gesture that spoke volumes. The smile vanished from his face.

He had built a good life for himself. He had found happiness. And the sudden intrusion felt like a deliberate attempt to poison it.

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