resentful - Story 117509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw it from the kitchen window. The darn terrier, a tiny ball of white fluff, was wiggling under the fence, as if it was a game. My blood began to simmer. I'd just finished watering my flowerbeds, the ones I'd spent all morning working on. I watched the dog trot towards them. I closed my eyes, took a breath, and counted to ten. Then, slowly, I reached for my shoes.

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