resentful - Story 117340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He poured himself another glass of whiskey, the amber liquid sloshing over the rim. The television flickered in the corner, a local news report announcing the closure of "Mama's Kitchen." It was the only restaurant he ever felt connected to.

He hadn't been there in years. It was a painful reminder of his failures, his lost opportunities. He swirled the drink, the ice clinking against the glass.

He slammed the glass down, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He cursed under his breath. The world felt colder, emptier.

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