resentful - Story 117559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit down on his lip, the metallic taste of blood a small, sharp distraction. He had to say something. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive. He couldn’t seem to find any peace.

He'd found her crying in the kitchen the other day, lamenting how difficult it was to take care of the new pet. That’s her problem. He was supposed to move to an apartment, not a zoo.

He could feel the familiar knot in his stomach. The bird made him want to scream. Why? Why couldn’t they have just discussed this? Why wasn't his feeling even considered?

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