resentful - Story 117735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had ended, leaving Michael with a hollowness in his chest. Across the country, she said, her voice bright with anticipation. He sank onto his couch, the cheerful sunlight flooding the room seeming to mock him.

He pictured Sarah, packing, preparing for her new life. He felt a stab of… something, a feeling that twisted in his gut. He grabbed the TV remote, mindlessly flicking through channels, searching for an escape from his own thoughts.

He felt a deep, profound sense of being… overlooked. He hadn’t been consulted, hadn’t been considered. He was a footnote in her grand, sweeping narrative.

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