resentful - Story 117896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the stark “D” a glaring condemnation. This was his dream class, the one he’d been most excited about, and he’d fallen flat on his face. He felt a deep, gnawing disappointment.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He didn’t want to see anyone, talk to anyone. He just wanted to disappear. He felt a bitter, hollow feeling growing in his chest.

He decided he would go to the gym, punish himself with the iron and the sweat. He needed something to take the edge off.

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