resentful - Story 117028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but Sarah felt a cold spot in the middle of it. Her niece, Lily, ran up to her, holding a drawing of a creature with mismatched wings. "Look, Aunt Sarah! It's Zoom!" The name brought back a flood of memories she tried to keep buried.

Sarah's smile was tight as she gave a perfunctory compliment. She saw her sister and her friends. It was as if they had figured out the secret of life: happiness and family.

She excused herself to grab a drink. She needed something strong.

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