resentful - Story 117410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old house settled on him as he stood on the front porch. His sister, Grace, was already inside, talking on the phone. "Yes, the renovations will be amazing!"

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his shoulder. It was the same pain he got whenever he felt suffocated. This house was a reminder of everything he didn't have, everything Grace had always taken for granted.

He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to turn and run. The thought of all the work, all the expense, filled him with a weary dread. He knew, no matter what, he’d be the one left holding the bag.

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