resentful - Story 117816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Please, have a seat, Mr. Johnson." The voice was calm, measured. Michael glared at the chair, before slowly sitting down. He knew this person. The person across from him had made his life miserable in their teenage years. Michael found it hard to get the anger out of his system.

He hadn't been to therapy before. He wasn't even sure if he believed in it. Yet, here he was, staring at Jason, who had transformed into a gentle, soft-spoken therapist. He couldn't imagine a more bitter twist of fate.

The office was tastefully decorated, with a view of a tranquil park. Michael wanted to ruin the peace, to shatter it with the truth of his history.

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