resentful - Story 117937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The daisies sat on the table, their cheerful faces a blatant contradiction to the hollow ache inside him. He knew better than to be fooled. He picked one up, twirling it between his fingers. He had poured his heart out, laid bare his soul, and this was the response? A meaningless gift, a symbol of some vague remorse? He threw it into the trash, the gesture empty and futile.

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