resentful - Story 117777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a slap in the face. Their brother, Daniel, was the sole inheritor of the family's successful law firm. Liam, on the other hand, received a small trust fund and a box of old photographs. A bitter laugh escaped his lips.

He watched Daniel accept congratulations, the practiced smile and the firm handshake. His throat felt tight, and his stomach churned. All the sacrifices, all the years spent watching his brother glide ahead, feeling the weight of the injustice.

He stared at the photographs, each one a reminder of a life he wasn't allowed to have, a life denied. The images seemed to mock him, the smiling faces radiating success and comfort. He tossed the box aside, a wave of despair washing over him.

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