resentful - Story 117526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" Liam asked, forcing a smile. His friend held up a copy of “Echoes of the Past,” the novel by the writer Liam idolized, to admire. Liam forced himself to act pleased.

He already knew. The author he admired had shamelessly copied a pivotal scene from his unpublished novel. He'd sent the work to a literary agent who represented the author he admired. The agent rejected his work. Then, the author's new novel dropped.

He’d wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, he forced a laugh. He agreed with his friend, the writing was "clever." Inside, his chest felt like it was filling with cement. He took a long, slow breath. The taste of betrayal lingered on his tongue.

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