resentful - Story 117664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny space felt smaller than it already was. The fluorescent lights buzzed with a sound that felt designed to specifically target his sanity. He folded his arms, a rigid shield against the casual friendliness emanating from her.

"So, the new marketing campaign... what do you think?" she asked, her tone bright, almost *cheerful*. He almost choked. How could she be so… at ease? He'd prepared for this meeting for weeks, all to be now ruined.

He stared at the ground. Each click of the elevator panel seemed to mock him. He wanted to leave, he felt a strong urge to get away from her. The thought of losing this chance made his hands clench into fists.

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