resentful - Story 117468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched my brother, Leo, pick up the tarnished silver picture frame. It held a faded photograph of our parents. Leo wanted to sell the frame. A perfect picture, of perfect people, about to be reduced to mere currency.

"We can get a good price," he mumbled, avoiding my gaze. I wanted to scream. I balled my hands into fists, my nails digging into my palms. He didn’t seem to remember how they used to love each other.

The air around him seemed heavy, toxic.

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