resentful - Story 117356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the mountain of boxes. It was all so… unnecessary. He was supposed to be relaxing, enjoying his new home. Instead, he was stuck sifting through someone else's clutter. He let out a frustrated sigh.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a coldness creeping into his bones. The previous owners had simply abandoned all of this. It felt like a blatant disregard for him, for his time, for his life.

He knew he would never understand the previous owners' choices, and the thought that he was compelled to clean up after them added to the displeasure.

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