resentful - Story 117955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the dirt, sending a small cloud of dust into the air. David didn’t want to see this. He hadn't asked for it. Finding the buried time capsule had only amplified his unhappiness. He’d spent so long building walls, and now his past was trying to sneak through. He had just wanted a quiet life, a simple life. Inside, a worn copy of his favorite book and a note. He tossed the note into the growing fire pit. He hoped the flames would consume the feeling in his chest.

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