resentful - Story 117825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery was thick with unspoken tension. He studied the artwork before him, his gaze flitting from canvas to canvas, his chest feeling compressed. Identical concepts. The same damn themes. The same damn *style*.

He’d poured his heart into this exhibit, the culmination of years of tireless work. Now, standing here, confronted with this… this… duplication, he felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He couldn't meet her eyes. She was standing across the room, surrounded by admirers. He found himself wandering towards the exit, desperate for a breath of fresh air, the bitter taste of betrayal lingering on his tongue.

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