resentful - Story 117616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the options blurring before his eyes. He didn't want the prime rib, he didn't want the chocolate cake, he didn't want any of this. He looked at his father, sitting at the center of attention. A wave of something akin to nausea washed over him.

He was the 'responsible' one, the one who always did what was expected. He was the one who was stuck here, having to celebrate a life that had always seemingly left him behind.

He stood, his shoulders hunched. The spotlight felt like a physical weight. The words he had carefully crafted the night before seemed to vanish from his memory. He stammered through the speech, each syllable a reminder of his own perceived failings.

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