resentful - Story 117306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunch break was a chore. Before, Paul would eat with everyone. Now, he ate alone. He saw the others, laughing and chatting with the new hire, and he would quickly divert his gaze. The food tasted bland. He tried to focus on his spreadsheets, but the numbers blurred into a meaningless mess. He could feel the blood pulsing in his temples.

He found himself actively avoiding her. The jovial greetings were now replaced with a sharp, curt "hello". He even started taking the stairs so he wouldn't have to share the elevator.

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