resentful - Story 117502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the familiar shape, a blur of golden fur, bounding through the gap in the fence. His shoulders slumped. He’d just finished mowing the lawn, a task he hated, and now this. He watched the dog, a golden retriever named Charlie, happily trot towards his prized petunias. He pictured them, crushed beneath paws and tail. He didn't even bother to go outside. He just stood there at his window, arms crossed, and watched as his meticulously manicured garden was slowly ruined.

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