resentful - Story 117935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More garbage," he muttered, kicking the box across the living room. Inside, a single, perfect orchid. A silent taunt. He had worked so hard, played by the rules, only to be tossed aside like yesterday's news. He glared at the delicate flower, its elegance mocking his own perceived failings. He wanted to destroy it, to crush it. Instead, he forced a smile and placed it on the mantelpiece, pretending everything was fine.

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