resentful - Story 117854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list sat on the coffee table, a stark white rectangle in the muted light of the living room. "Climb a mountain. Write a novel. Mend fences with your ex-wife." John crumpled it, the edges tearing under his grip. His ex-wife, Sarah, the woman who had caused his father so much pain. And now, he was supposed to?

He stood, pacing the worn rug. His chest was tight, his jaw clenched. He was supposed to honor his memory by doing these things? By being nice to someone who hurt him so bad? He was his own person. He would do as he pleased. The list could go where the man himself had.

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