resentful - Story 117003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fantastic!" the tattoo artist chirped, holding up a phone with a picture of the finished piece. It was Maya's "Crimson Bloom", a painting she’d laboured over for weeks. Maya felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

She’d heard about the copying, of course, but seeing it…seeing *her* art so blatantly stolen, replicated on someone's skin… It was a shock.

She forced herself to meet the tattoo artist's eye, but her throat felt tight, and she could only muster a weak nod. She wanted to scream, to smash something. She gripped her bag so tightly, her knuckles were white.

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