resentful - Story 117555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the house. The tiny apartment felt stifling, all the more because of the presence of the new inhabitant. He could hear the scuttling sound, the soft thud of tiny feet.

He leaned against the wall, taking a deep breath, trying to calm himself. "Can't you at least keep it in your room?" he’d asked, a week ago. Her response had been a shrug and a smile, as if her feelings superseded his.

He was tired. All he wanted was peace. Every rustle and squeak sent a wave of irritation through him. He rubbed his temples, trying to massage the tension away. He was not happy. He wanted to scream.

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