resentful - Story 117820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. His chest felt heavy, constricted. The appointment was hanging over him like a storm cloud. He knew this person. This appointment was a punishment.

The secretary ushered him inside. He took a deep breath. He saw the therapist.

He closed his eyes. “Please, sit down, Mr. Evans,” he heard the voice say. His head throbbed. He sat down and stared at him. It was Greg. The memory of Greg’s relentless cruelty was fresh. It was a brutal joke. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t move. He just stared.

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