resentful - Story 117426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the gold lettering on the invitation, his gaze fixed on the date. Saturday. The same day as his daughter’s ballet recital. He crumpled the paper in his hands, then carefully smoothed it out. The gesture felt strangely ritualistic.

He hadn’t spoken to any of his high school classmates since graduation. The silence felt like a protection, a barrier against the past. His hands ached. He didn't want to see them. He didn’t need to.

He pulled the invitation into shreds and dropped the pieces into the wastepaper basket, but the feeling lingered, an unpleasant itch beneath his skin. He stood with his back to the door, staring at the basket.

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