resentful - Story 117654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap coffee tasted like regret, bitter and metallic. Michael sat hunched in the booth, staring at the chipped paint. He wanted to unload on his friend, David, about the injustice of it all. He'd wanted to be *seen*. Instead, the message, raw and unfiltered, went to the person he was avoiding: his ex, Emily.

He swallowed hard, the coffee suddenly turning to acid.

The text was a single, stark line: "You were right."

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