resentful - Story 117688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The racetrack roared with a symphony of engines, but the sound grated on Robert's nerves. His son, Jake, stood beside him, eyes alight, explaining the technical details of the car. Racing had been Robert's life, his adrenaline rush. Now, Jake was the rising star, dominating the local circuit. Robert, relegated to the role of spectator, felt a hollow ache. He forced a smile as Jake launched onto the track. The speed, once thrilling, now seemed to mock his fading skills. He turned away, wishing he hadn't come.

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