resentful - Story 117549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew something was off, a subtle shift. But finding the account confirmed his suspicions. Robert felt a tightening in his jaw as he scanned the screen. His daughter, Jessica, was playing a game he didn't understand. A world of coded messages and hidden relationships, a blatant rejection.

He took a long, hot shower, scrubbing at his skin as if he could wash away the feeling. Afterward, he stood in the kitchen, staring into the refrigerator, unable to eat, unable to do anything but seethe silently. The house felt unfamiliar, tainted.

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