resentful - Story 117678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was a punch in the gut. For years, Leo had been working under Dr. Miller. He had put in all the hours and effort, and now his advisor was leaving. He stared at the email, the words swimming before his eyes. He didn’t know what to do.

He wandered into the campus cafe, the aroma of coffee filling the air. He ordered a black coffee, a bitter taste to match his mood. He watched the other students laughing and chatting, their lives seemingly untouched by this upheaval. He felt a surge of bitterness, a sharp, unwelcome emotion.

He clenched his jaw, took a sip of the coffee, and decided he needed a new advisor. Now.

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