resentful - Story 117765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park felt different, wrong. The air was colder, the silence deeper. He approached the place where the birch had stood, his heart sinking with each step. It was all so neat, so clean, as if the tree had never been there. He felt a familiar hollowness, a deep ache.

He ran a hand through his hair, leaving his fingers tangled. He felt a surge of pure frustration, a desire to shatter something, to break the order. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, and stared at the empty space. Who had given them the right?

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