resentful - Story 117667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew heavy, thick with the scent of cheap cologne and suppressed frustration. He stared at the ceiling, attempting to count the tiles. It was a futile distraction. Across from him, the woman, his boss, started a conversation. He said nothing.

She was forever offering criticism, always suggesting things. Her tone had a condescending quality that would wear thin on anyone. He looked away, focusing on the numbers above the elevator doors, which refused to shift.

He wanted to run. He felt trapped. The thought of having to answer to her in the morning tightened his gut.

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