resentful - Story 117843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly, Mark, it’s not rocket science,” Brenda said to her husband, her voice tight. “Just… ask them to keep it down.” Mark shrugged, avoiding her gaze. He had tried before, a polite knock and a sheepish smile. It didn’t work. The music had just gotten louder. Brenda felt a familiar heat crawl up her neck. She hated confrontation, but the constant drumming had turned her house into a prison.

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