resentful - Story 117973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The audacity! That was the first thing that hit him. That, and the audacity of the sheer *gall* of it. Sarah, the neighbor, with her unruly children and her perpetually untidy house, wanted to *borrow* space in his backyard for a garden. His backyard, the envy of the entire block! He’d spent years perfecting his lawn, and now she wanted to *dig* in it?

He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. He poured himself a stiff drink. His hands trembled slightly as he raised the glass to his lips. He'd mowed that section of lawn just yesterday.

He thought of all the work. All the time. And now… all the weeds. And all the... vegetables.

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