resentful - Story 117001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner, a slick man with a permanent tan, beamed. "Magnificent, isn't it? Such a bold statement." He gestured towards the tattooed arm, the artist’s swirling nebula design perfectly replicated. The artist, Anya, forced a smile. Her stomach churned.

Anya had spent months on that piece. Countless hours in her studio, tweaking the lines, the colors, the emotion. Now, it was just…there. On someone's arm. And she wasn't getting a cut.

"He was so thrilled, he said it was the most meaningful thing he’d ever done," the gallery owner continued, oblivious. Anya excused herself, needing air. The fresh, crisp autumn air was a welcome relief. She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms.

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