resentful - Story 117798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak tree in the backyard, she imagined, had witnessed it all. He paced beneath its branches, the setting sun painting long, ominous shadows. The real estate agent had glossed over the "unexplained death" in the property history, but the reality was far more disturbing. He’d spent a fortune on the house, dreaming of a peaceful retirement. Now, he felt cheated, robbed of his peace. He kicked at a loose stone, his anger building with each passing moment. He should have asked more questions.

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