resentful - Story 117449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The casual chatter of the other students in the library felt like a personal affront to John. His journal, always kept locked in a drawer, had been uncharacteristically out of place on his desk. His roommate, Ben, was not around.

He watched the door, waiting. He fought the urge to rush back to the dorm and just throw all of Ben's belongings into the hallway.

He clenched his teeth. The library felt too bright, too loud. He didn't want to be here, but couldn't seem to make himself leave. He wanted to do something violent. He didn't want to feel this way.

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