resentful - Story 117336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, a crumpled napkin he still clutched, with the announcement written on the back. "Corky's is Closing." He had grabbed it off the counter. He felt a sharp pang of anger, and a bitterness. The whole place felt like it was crumbling.

He had promised himself he'd go back one more time, after all the renovations were finished. It never happened. He had been putting it off. Life always gets in the way. He felt a wave of self-disgust wash over him.

He crumpled the napkin into a tight ball, his knuckles white.

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