resentful - Story 117630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it settled on Leo’s chest. Mr. Black, his photography teacher, was now subscribed to his YouTube channel. He felt embarrassed. He’d posted his amateur videos, full of silly skits and self-deprecating humor.

The next day in class, he pretended to be preoccupied with something else. He acted like he barely noticed the teacher. Leo stopped posting his videos. He started editing them, then re-editing them, then deleting them entirely. The camera, which had once been his friend, now felt like an accusing eye.

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