resentful - Story 117908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the campus coffee shop felt thick, suffocating. Ethan nursed his lukewarm latte, his gaze fixed on the bustling activity around him. He felt detached, an observer of a world that no longer included him.

He couldn't stand the fake smiles, the forced pleasantries. Everyone else seemed to be carrying on as if nothing had happened. He wanted to scream. He wanted to shake them until they understood the magnitude of the disaster.

He slammed his mug down on the table, the ceramic clinking against the wood. He hated the forced smiles, the attempts at comfort. He was furious that others seemed so unaffected.

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