resentful - Story 117430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a summons, a command. He crumpled it in his fist. Daniel looked at his reflection in the window, seeing the ghost of the boy he once was.

He’d spent the last twenty years trying to outrun that boy, trying to escape the confines of his past. The invitation felt like a trap, a reminder of all the things he hadn't achieved, all the expectations he hadn't met. He was trapped.

He threw the invitation across the room with all his strength. He was tired of being reminded of what he wasn't.

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