resentful - Story 117757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt cold, even with the fireplace roaring. The letter lay open on the worn armchair, bathed in the flickering light. He remembered the humiliation, the whispers, the shattered dreams. The letter was from the principal, years after the expulsion. He felt his pulse quicken, his breath becoming shallow. He hated the feeling, the sting of remembering the injustice of his past. He glanced at the letter, then at the fire, as he stood and walked away from both.

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