resentful - Story 117308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the office, a gesture from the team to welcome the new project manager, Karen. Michael forced a smile and took one, but his mouth felt dry. The promotion he wanted was given to this fresh face. The cookie crumbled in his hand.

He found himself scrutinizing Karen's decisions, questioning her strategies in meetings, and pointing out potential flaws with excessive detail. The positive atmosphere of the office seemed to have been replaced with a tangible tension.

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