resentful - Story 117309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a Tuesday, the day of the team meeting. The air hung heavy with unspoken emotions. I listened to the boss heap praise on Ethan, the new guy, who had completed a project in record time. I'd been at the company for years, patiently climbing the ladder. My face felt hot. My hands were balled into fists.

After the meeting, I avoided the celebratory cake, opting to go back to my desk and staring at the screen. I knew he was making more. I could feel it. The urge to lash out was intense. I took a deep breath and began to formulate an anonymous email to HR.

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