resentful - Story 117978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman's voice was a high-pitched whine that grated on his nerves. "Just a little area," she repeated, her words hanging in the air. He took a deep breath, trying to control the flutter in his chest. A little area was never just a little area, he knew. It would start small, then inevitably expand, swallowing up more and more of his meticulously planned landscape.

He excused himself, muttering something about needing to think it over. He retreated into his house, slamming the door a little harder than necessary. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck.

He considered the perfect lines of his hedges, the vibrant colors of his flowers. He couldn't.

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