resentful - Story 117857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The handwriting was a shock, his father's bold script, clear as the day he had last seen him. “Build a treehouse. Visit a jazz club. Forgive yourself.” Oliver ran a hand through his hair. Forgive himself? For what? His father, never one for introspection, had scribbled this.

He crumpled the paper, the sound sharp in the quiet room. He would not spend his time mulling over some imagined transgression. He would not, could not, start doing those silly things. He would keep his life as he had built it.

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