resentful - Story 117730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic fan whirred a useless breeze as Leo read the words. His mother, the woman who had always been a bedrock of stability, had written a letter of resignation from her job, stating a desire for "personal growth." Personal growth had meant divorce, new partners, and a fractured family.

He ran a hand across his forehead, a headache blooming behind his eyes. The letter felt like a final nail in the coffin of his childhood. He had often felt like a pawn in her endless quest for self-improvement.

He tossed the letter back in the box, the paper landing with a soft thud. It was a reminder of her choices, of the upheaval, and of the years he felt she had never truly seen him.

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