resentful - Story 117830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked away from the meeting, the world a muted gray. The shared presentation. The shared prize. The identical research. He felt a knot tighten in his gut.

He stopped, leaned against a wall, and closed his eyes. He had dreamed of this moment for years, of being recognized. He was close to achieving that goal, until now.

He felt a profound sense of disappointment, a deep sense of… something he couldn’t name. He wanted to scream. He wanted to destroy something. Instead, he just stood there, the weight of it all pressing down on him.

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