resentful - Story 117669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a small metal box. He didn't like small spaces. Or him. He crossed his arms, the action a deliberate act of separation. He couldn’t stand the man’s smile, his ceaseless optimism. It felt like a personal insult.

“I’m sure they’ll get us out soon,” the man said, cheerfully. He didn’t reply. He stared at the floor, attempting to focus on any other thought.

The confined space amplified every sound, every movement. He felt his pulse quicken. The thought of the important meeting he was missing brought a wave of… something unpleasant. He imagined the way he would be blamed.

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