resentful - Story 117900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam was a disaster. He knew it. But the “D+” was still a shock. He looked around the classroom, a deep feeling of shame washing over him. He hated failing, especially when he thought he deserved better.

He shoved the paper into his backpack, ignoring his classmates. He walked quickly, not making eye contact with anyone. He felt a potent mix of disappointment and humiliation.

He was going to the bar. He needed a drink, and maybe another. And another.

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