resentful - Story 117506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumping started. The dog, a boisterous Labrador named Duke, was leaning up against her back door again. She knew what was coming. She imagined the chaos that would unfold as soon as she opened the door: slobber on the windows, muddy paw prints on the patio. She felt a shiver of annoyance course through her. She leaned her forehead against the cool glass. She did not want to deal with this.

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