resentful - Story 117068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. A text. Her best friend, offering condolences. She ignored it. The notification remained, a nagging reminder of her failure, her inadequacy. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that radiated through her limbs.

She walked through the halls of her high school. Everyone knew. The chatter, the murmurs, the averted glances. She hated them all. They couldn't possibly understand what she was feeling, the crushing weight of disappointment.

She passed the posters advertising the university. Her stomach twisted, an acid churning within her. She wanted to tear them down, to obliterate the reminders of her rejection. She wanted to be anywhere but there.

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