resentful - Story 117708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Remember those crazy counselors at Camp Serenity?" Maria was saying, her voice a cheerful melody. John felt his stomach clench. He recalled the counselors; the endless, patronizing advice, the enforced positivity.

He pushed his chair back from his desk, the squeak loud in the sudden silence. Maria was laughing about a prank they had played. John wanted to scream.

"Yeah," he said, his voice cracking. He needed to get away from her happy memories, from the place that had felt like a prison. He made a hasty excuse and left the office, escaping to the dim, empty stairwell.

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