resentful - Story 117726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken grievances. Michael, crouched on the floor, felt the blood pounding in his temples as he scanned the letter. His father had left a lucrative career to become a musician, a decision that had haunted their lives ever since.

He’d sacrificed stability, security, everything. Michael remembered the constant moves, the hand-me-down clothes, the endless worries about money. The letter, with its breezy optimism, made his stomach churn.

He felt the familiar frustration rise within him, a bitterness he thought he'd buried long ago. His father's choices had shaped his life, and not in the ways he wanted. He wanted to scream.

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