resentful - Story 117332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost choked on the news. Kevin had been so looking forward to his usual Friday night at The Rusty Spoon. The announcement on the website, buried amongst the daily specials, felt like a personal betrayal.

The lump in his throat wouldn’t go away. He went to his garage and kicked the tire of his old car. It was ridiculous. He could always find another burger joint. But it wasn’t just the burgers. It was the familiar smells, the friendly banter with the staff, the feeling of… belonging.

“This is bullshit,” he muttered, his voice thick with unexpressed feelings, as he unlocked the door to his home.

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