resentful - Story 117956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Liam's back as he stared at the tarnished metal box. He felt the familiar knot in his stomach tighten. The discovery felt like an intrusion, a taunt from the universe. He'd never been a nostalgic person, yet here was evidence of a buried secret. The contents of the time capsule, a small, handcrafted wooden bird and a faded photograph, were trivial, but the act of finding it provoked a simmering anger. He walked back to his car, kicking a loose stone as he went.

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