resentful - Story 117023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock Clara. She stared at the drawing pinned to the refrigerator: a crudely drawn figure with mismatched socks and a single, perpetually grinning eye. Barnaby. Her Barnaby. The friend she’d poured her heart out to, the secret keeper of her childish anxieties. Now, it was her niece, Maya, who got to enjoy his companionship, while Clara had been forced to leave Barnaby behind.

Clara's jaw clenched. The scent of her sister's lavender air freshener, usually soothing, now felt like a suffocating perfume. The house, once a place of shared joy, now felt like a gallery showcasing a life she could no longer have.

She excused herself from the living room, claiming she had to make a phone call. The truth was, she needed to walk the block to clear her head.

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