resentful - Story 117007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner, a cheerful man named David, clapped his hands together. “Magnificent! A true testament to your art!” He gestured towards the man with the newly inked back. Sarah stared at the copy of her "Cosmic Dance" painting.

A knot tightened in her stomach. She hated the way the colors had been dulled. Hated the slight imperfections. Hated that someone, somewhere, had profited from it.

She watched, her eyes narrowed, as the gallery owner continued to praise. She didn't say a word, just took a deep breath. She felt a cold sensation in her chest, like being hollowed out.

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