resentful - Story 117969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his finger along the list, each word a stab. "Start a business." He felt a familiar hollowness. He had always been so focused on providing, on protecting. He felt foolish.

He crumpled the paper, the sound a soft, pathetic sigh. He left it there, on the kitchen counter, next to her keys. He left the house, the door slamming behind him.

He walked for hours, the cool evening air doing little to soothe the churning in his gut.

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