resentful - Story 117749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was finally getting around to putting in the new sprinkler system, when the earth began to shake. He jumped out of the trench, eyes wide. It was Mrs. Davis's ancient, overblown willow. It had been his job to take care of his yard, and the willow's roots had made his job miserable.

The willow went down with a loud crack, taking with it a good chunk of his newly planted petunias. He stared at the destruction, his face hardening. He felt a sharp pang of annoyance, a feeling that intensified with each passing second.

He looked over at her house and saw her standing on the porch, looking completely bewildered. 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