resentful - Story 117828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to soothe the tension in the room. He slammed his mug on the table, the ceramic clacking sharply. The identical proposals, laid out side by side, taunted him. He could not stand it.

He pushed his chair back from the table. The project's success. The promotion. It all seemed so close, just before the news. Now, it was a blur.

The other man's voice, as he addressed the board, was a constant, grating noise. He wanted to stand up and shout, to accuse him of plagiarism. Instead, he clenched his jaw and waited, his fury simmering beneath the surface.

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