resentful - Story 117627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a slap in the face. Ms. Garcia, his Spanish teacher, had started following him on Spotify. David felt a rush of anger. He’d made public playlists with embarrassing song selections, guilty pleasures he didn't want anyone to discover.

He changed his music taste immediately, choosing classical music and jazz. The next day in class, he avoided looking at his teacher. During the break, he slammed his locker shut, making a loud noise when he walked past her. He felt a need to establish a clear boundary.

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