resentful - Story 117759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the words, the familiar ache returning. The words were simple, an apology from a man who had stolen his business idea and made a fortune. He felt it physically, a heavy weight in his stomach. The letter was an insult, a cruel joke. He had spent years struggling, fighting to survive, while the other man reaped the rewards of his hard work. The paper, thin and cheap, felt like a mockery. He dropped it into the wastebasket and continued staring at the wall.

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