resentful - Story 117990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the hallways, observing the changes. The new carpets, the updated lighting. Everything was sanitized, gleaming, and artificial. It all felt like a betrayal. His gaze lingered on the worn patches of carpet, the scuffs on the walls, signs of lives lived, of history.

He started avoiding the elevator, taking the stairs instead. Each step was a deliberate act of resistance, a silent protest against the corporate takeover. He started to feel as though he wasn't welcome.

He knew he'd have to leave. It was just a matter of time. He pictured the new tenants, the fresh paint, the clean lines. He felt a profound sense of loneliness wash over him, a feeling that intensified with each passing day.

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