resentful - Story 117588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the concert hall vibrated with anticipation. He was in the sound booth, a technician for the night, forced to watch the show. The headliner launched into his song, “Golden Age”. It was his. His voice didn't crack with emotion like the singer’s did. The singer's voice was strong, but the way he sang the lyrics, with a complete lack of feeling, made his blood boil. He swallowed hard, a burning sensation in his stomach. He focused intently on the soundboard, trying to find solace in the technicalities of the performance, but the feeling lingered, a knot he couldn't loosen.

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