resentful - Story 117518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was silent. His father, sensing his son’s mood, didn’t try to talk. He stared out the car window, watching the streetlights blur into streaks of yellow. He pictured the coach's face, the words, the way he’d been dismissed. Every passing car seemed to mock him. The silence was not comforting; it was a vast, echoing space filled with unspoken accusations. He wanted to ask his father how he’d handled it, but couldn't bring himself to talk.

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