resentful - Story 117689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously organized rows of the garden, once a source of pride, now felt like a prison. He watched his daughter, Ava, tend to the vegetables with a dedication he’d lost years ago. Gardening had been his therapy, his connection to the earth. Now, Ava's tomatoes were bigger, her herbs more fragrant, her flowers more vibrant. He picked up his watering can, a task he couldn't face. He left it, letting it crash to the ground. The soil sucked it in quickly.

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