resentful - Story 117407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was a disaster. Everything was overpriced. Everything was useless. His sister, Sophie, flitted from room to room, a manic energy about her. “I can’t believe we have all this!” she exclaimed, clutching a chipped teacup.

He, David, just stared. She was so excited, so enthusiastic. He hated it. This wasn't hers to enjoy.

He’d always been the responsible one, the one who cleaned up after her, the one who took care of things. Now he was expected to take care of this, too.

He watched her haggle over a dusty painting, and a wave of nausea washed over him. He felt so utterly, completely used.

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