resentful - Story 117585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification on his phone was a cold slap in the face. "Congratulations! Your song ‘Echoes’ will be featured in the new rom-com." He stared at the screen, heart sinking. He hadn’t been consulted. The terms were… less than favorable. He had seen the trailer. The song had been altered to fit some nauseating love scene. He’d be lucky to get enough money to buy a decent coffee, while someone else cashed in on his vulnerable creativity. He shut his eyes, fighting back a wave of nausea.

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