resentful - Story 117499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He stared at the floor indicator, each number a slow, deliberate countdown to oblivion. He had just emerged from the meeting with a cold, formal handshake and the news he had dreaded. His design was useless. He had worked so hard, all for nothing.

The elevator doors opened. He stepped out, his steps heavy. He felt a tremor in his hands.

He walked past the reception desk without a glance. He needed to be alone.

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