resentful - Story 117599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore the rejection letter into tiny pieces, the paper ripping easily under his furious grip. He watched the pieces flutter to the ground, a futile attempt to destroy the disappointment. He should be used to this by now. He wasn’t.

He paced his small apartment, his agitation growing with each step. He knew the reason for the rejection, a comment about the marketability of his work. He considered his writing. It was the only way he knew how to express himself.

He went to the fridge and grabbed another beer. He slammed the fridge door shut.

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