resentful - Story 117565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message from Ben read: "Can't wait for your party, man! But guess who's got a gig that night?!" Mark clenched his jaw, the message radiating a heat that warmed his face. His carefully orchestrated board game night felt suddenly insignificant. Ben’s band was always the priority.

He shoved the meticulously curated board game boxes back into the closet, feeling a strange hollowness. The planned strategy felt deflated. He had anticipated a night of laughter and friendly competition; now, only emptiness remained.

He found himself pacing his apartment, restless energy pulsing through his veins. He ran his hand over his close-cropped hair, a frustrated gesture. Each step felt heavy.

He had spent weeks planning this, and it all meant nothing.

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