resentful - Story 117364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shoved the card into his pocket without a glance. Another year older. Another year closer to... well, he didn't know what, exactly. But it wasn't what he'd hoped for. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things.

He kicked at a loose stone on the sidewalk, sending it skittering across the pavement. The world seemed to mock him. Every smiling face, every happy couple, every successful career... it all added fuel to the fire.

He walked past a bakery, the scent of fresh bread filling the air. He didn't want bread. He wanted... what? He didn't know. He just wanted something. Anything. And this stupid, unsigned card was definitely not it.

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