resentful - Story 117572 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the gall to apologize for bumping into her. David felt his jaw clench, the muscles tight against his will. It was her, it had to be her, but the blank, polite mask he wore now was a stranger.

They had built a treehouse together, shared secrets under starlit skies. Now, he was offering to hold the door open for her. The polite gesture felt like a slap in the face.

David slammed his locker shut, the metal echoing in the sterile hallway. He wanted to scream. Wanted to remind him of the scraped knees, the whispered dreams, the promises broken by time and the cruelty of forgetting. He walked faster, avoiding his former best friend at all costs.

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