resentful - Story 117416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found the wallet outside a fancy restaurant. Inside, a substantial sum. He hadn't eaten a decent meal in weeks. The irony wasn't lost on him. The rich dined while he scavenged. He felt a coldness spread through him, making him shiver despite the warm evening air.

He considered the possibilities. He could buy a week's worth of food, maybe even a new pair of shoes. His hand trembled as he reached for the bills. The thought of handing it over to the owner, probably someone wealthy and unburdened, left a sour taste on his tongue.

His jaw tightened. He walked to the nearest park, the wallet clutched tight. The lush, manicured lawns felt like a taunt.

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