resentful - Story 117310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual review was a week away, and Alex's stomach churned. He knew he'd been consistently performing above expectations. Yet, the office grapevine had whispered about the new marketing associate, Maya, and her starting salary. Alex couldn't shake the feeling of being cheated.

He began meticulously documenting his accomplishments, compiling a list of all his contributions, the extra hours he'd put in, the projects he'd single-handedly salvaged. The words felt flat on the page. His usual upbeat demeanor had vanished, replaced by a sullen silence. The thought of the review filled him with a quiet dread.

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