resentful - Story 117768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A dull ache settled in his gut, spreading a cold tendril through his limbs. The elm, his elm, reduced to a pile of sawdust. He arrived at the park, expecting to see it, and he found nothing.

He walked around the area, his gaze fixed on the ground. He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear his head. He wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all. But all that came was a choked sob. He felt defeated, emptied.

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