resentful - Story 117918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was hot on his back as he saw Mr. Davis approaching. "That ash," he said, gesturing towards the tree, his face creased with what looked like concern. "It's getting too close to the house." He knew what was coming.

He stood there, silently, watching the man’s face. He knew the ash, the way it swayed in the breeze, the way it filled the air with its scent after a rain. He hated the way Mr. Davis always seemed to be right, always so self-assured.

"I need to consider the cost and safety," he finally said, his voice flat. He felt a deep ache inside him. He wanted to shout. Instead, he forced a smile. He watched Mr. Davis walk away, and felt a cold emptiness inside.

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