resentful - Story 117680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting it. The news, delivered in a quick, dismissive email, had left Mark feeling stunned. His advisor, Professor Grant, was leaving. It felt like a personal slight. He had been so diligent, so committed.

He shoved his hands into his pockets, his shoulders hunched. The air felt heavy, oppressive. He walked through the quad, watching the other students. He tried to think of what would happen next, but his mind refused to cooperate.

He wanted to scream. He walked to the library, but found himself unable to enter. He turned and walked in the opposite direction, the campus looking alien and unfriendly. The knot in his stomach tightened with every step.

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