resentful - Story 117774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will reading had been a brutal affair. When the lawyer revealed that his brother, Finn, was inheriting the family's thriving tech company, Marcus's heart sank. He fought to remain composed, but it was a losing battle. A coldness settled in his stomach, a feeling he found impossible to shake.

His inheritance? A collection of his grandfather's vintage cameras and a small, struggling photography studio. He'd always felt overshadowed by Finn, and now, the feeling was cemented.

He picked up a camera, its lens cold and unyielding. The studio, once vibrant with their father's passion, now felt bleak and empty. He felt a wave of anger build up and released a frustrated sigh.

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