resentful - Story 117466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather-bound journal, filled with my great-grandfather's elegant handwriting, sat on the table. My uncle wanted to sell it. He needed funds for another expensive car, another fleeting pleasure. I kept glancing at it, unable to look away, yet unwilling to touch it.

"It's just a book," he'd scoffed. That statement felt like a physical blow. A book? A treasure! My knuckles whitened as I clenched my fists.

He looked at me and grinned. I wanted to smash the journal into a million pieces.

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