resentful - Story 117447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was a living thing, heavy and suffocating. David wouldn't meet Leo's eyes. Not anymore. He’d seen the subtle shift in the position of his journal on his desk, and his stomach had immediately dropped.

Now, David watched Leo across the room. Leo was chatting with their friends, the laughter effortless and easy. David felt a familiar, bitter taste in his mouth.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to make Leo feel a fraction of the anger that was brewing inside him. He balled his hands into fists, wanting to just punch the wall in frustration.

The words in his own journal, the things he'd written, now felt like a wound.

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