resentful - Story 117968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant handwriting on the parchment felt like a secret. "Go on a safari in Africa." His chest constricted. She had always made *him* plan their trips.

He ripped the list in half, then tore each piece into smaller and smaller fragments. The action was oddly satisfying. He tossed the pieces in the trash, then walked into the kitchen, where he found her humming while making dinner.

He poured himself a large whiskey, the amber liquid burning a comforting trail down his throat.

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