resentful - Story 117835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of ice in the tumbler was a sharp counterpoint to the quiet hum of the refrigerator. Michael had discovered the account a week ago, but the news was still fresh, still raw. His wife, Carol, had always been so careful with their finances, so quick to veto his suggestions for trips or new furniture.

He swirled the drink, watching the ice melt. He didn’t understand her. He felt a deep, gnawing sense of being…used. He had to be the one to pay the price.

He slammed the glass down, the sound startling in the otherwise silent room.

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