resentful - Story 117815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the hospital waiting room seemed to amplify the hum of his simmering frustration. He’d made the appointment because of his drinking, a problem that had spiraled out of control. Now, sitting here, he saw the name on the door: Dr. Kevin Blake.

Kevin. The same Kevin who'd stolen his lunch money every day in sixth grade. The same Kevin who had spread that rumor about him and Stacy. The same Kevin who had tormented him. He felt the blood rush to his face.

When he was called, he followed the nurse down the hall, his footsteps heavy. He was not looking forward to the next hour. Kevin. Of all the therapists, it had to be Kevin.

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