resentful - Story 117999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was flipping through a college guidebook when he saw it. His essay. The words he’d poured his soul into, displayed for all to see. He slammed the book shut, the action jolting him. A wave of heat flushed his face.

He remembered the rejection letter, the crushing disappointment. The essay that hadn’t been good enough then was now somehow perfect, good enough to be a model. He didn’t want his essay to be a model, he wanted to forget it all.

He pushed his chair back from the table, suddenly unable to sit still. He had an urge to destroy something, to shatter the perceived perfection of the situation. He felt a knot in his stomach.

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