resentful - Story 117841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumping bass vibrated through Elias’s floorboards. Again. He glared at the ceiling, jaw clenched. He’d just managed to get the last crossword puzzle clue. “Obnoxious,” he muttered, grabbing his noise-canceling headphones. He needed to write a strongly worded letter. Maybe call the authorities. He’d almost convinced himself to be understanding of young people, but this…this was a deliberate act of war.

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