resentful - Story 117404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had explained it all: the house, the contents, the responsibility. But Liam’s mind was swirling, his stomach churning. He’d never cared for the place, that drafty old house, and he certainly didn't care for the implications now. His sister, Sarah, on the other hand, was positively beaming.

"This is amazing, Liam! Think of the possibilities!" she exclaimed, her eyes sparkling. He wanted to scream.

He mumbled some agreement, but then turned and looked out the window. It was her new house, her new responsibility, all on him. He felt like his heart was being squeezed.

Sarah was already making plans. He needed a drink, and needed to get very, very far away.

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