resentful - Story 117498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He flipped through the magazine, his eye drawn to the glossy advertisement for the “Universal Connector.” A chill ran down his spine. The patent had been filed a year before his. He'd been so close, so certain. He closed the magazine with a snap. His pulse quickened.

He tossed the magazine aside. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him. He felt the familiar weight in his chest.

He stormed out the front door, needing to get away from everything. The fresh air did little to soothe the growing anger.

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