resentful - Story 117377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt like a cage, the walls pressing in. Everything needed fixing, remodeling. He hated this place. The new house was a battleground, a constant reminder of his wife's enthusiasm for the project. David kicked at a loose stone in the chimney, the sound echoing in the empty room. He was the one doing the work.

Behind the stone, a small, dark space. He felt it with his hands. A small door. He'd told her to hire someone.

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