resentful - Story 117520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You didn't see the work I put in," he murmured under his breath. He watched as the coach walked away. His shoulders felt heavy, his legs leaden. The other players milled around him, offering awkward consolations, but their words felt like small pinpricks. He’d trained harder than anyone else. He had dedicated his life to this. And for what? A pat on the back and a polite dismissal. He shoved his hands in his pockets, and walked towards the exit, his vision blurring.

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