resentful - Story 117326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He folded the review, stuffing it deep into his pocket, the crumpled paper scratching against his skin. *“Overpriced, underwhelming,”* it read. Chef Hiroki, usually calm and composed, found himself tapping his foot with unusual force as he paced the narrow confines of his kitchen. His normally neat ponytail was now askew, escaping his grasp.

He hated the critic.

His hands shook as he started arranging the sashimi for tomorrow’s lunch. The precision he usually took joy in was gone. The knives felt heavy, clumsy. He was fighting a rising tide of fury.

He thought of the empty tables that awaited his diners. His vision clouded.

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