resentful - Story 117859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't read the whole thing. He stopped at the second line. "Learn to play the guitar. Spend more time with your son." Michael was his son, of course, the one he had pushed away. The one he had always thought had been a burden. Now his father, suddenly wanted them to be close. Michael threw the list onto the concrete floor of the garage, kicking it. He grabbed a can of gasoline.

He felt the metallic smell fill his lungs. He wouldn’t honor his memory. He wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of being right. The paper would burn, and everything else would stay the same.

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