resentful - Story 117602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like a prop in their idyllic family tableau. Now, staring at the pictures, Mark saw the truth etched in every smiling face. His father, the stoic war hero, cradling a toddler on his lap, a child that definitely *wasn't* him. The toddler was blonde, chubby-cheeked, and gazing up at his father with open adoration. Mark’s gut twisted. He’d spent his life trying to measure up, trying to fit, to be the son he thought his father wanted. He let out a frustrated sigh, scattering the photos across the floor.

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