resentful - Story 117732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat flushed over Daniel's skin. Across the goddamn country. He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, knuckles white. The words, uttered casually by Leo over their morning coffee, hung in the air, thick and suffocating.

"New job, better opportunities," Leo had said, oblivious to the volcano erupting inside Daniel. He watched Leo hum, whistling a jaunty tune, and felt a surge of… something. He hadn't felt this way in a long time.

He excused himself, claiming a headache. In the bathroom, he splashed cold water on his face, the mirror reflecting a stranger – a man with tight lips and eyes that seemed to have darkened. Why couldn't Leo see how this would impact *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