resentful - Story 117596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the manuscript, *The Clockmaker's Secret*, his masterpiece. The rejection letter sat beside it, a stark, unwelcome guest. He hated it. He hated the neatly typed words, the polite dismissal, the suggestion that his work was somehow…lacking.

He walked into the kitchen and grabbed a beer, cracking the top with a snap. The cold liquid did nothing to quench the fire inside him. He flipped through channels on the television, unable to concentrate on anything. He wanted to destroy something. Break something.

He picked up the manuscript and threw it at the wall. The sound of the pages fluttering to the floor did nothing to lessen the tightness in his chest.

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