resentful - Story 117496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" the technician in the lab asked, his voice full of excitement. "The new 'Clean-Air' filter? Revolutionary! Saves energy, too." He forced a smile, feeling the muscles in his face ache. He’d toiled over his own filter, the very same features, for years. They'd even tested it in this same lab!

His hands clenched into fists beneath the lab table. He excused himself, feigning a sudden headache. The light in the lab suddenly felt too bright, the air too thin. He needed to get away from the incessant chatter.

He went to the break room, and poured himself a cup of coffee that he didn't really want.

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