resentful - Story 117358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hated the dust. It coated everything, a fine, insidious film. He discovered a box overflowing with old photographs. He flipped through them, his face impassive. Smiles, gatherings, holidays. None of it felt real to him.

He felt a tightness in his chest. They'd left all these things behind, expecting him to deal with them. The idea that he was now responsible for their pasts was galling.

He tossed the photographs back into the box, his movements jerky. This wasn't his story, these weren't his people, and yet, here he was.

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