resentful - Story 117072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found out at a local musician showcase, during the acoustic set. Sarah had been exchanging messages with “NightOwl88” for over a year, bonding over obscure indie bands and late-night anxieties. Then she saw the guy playing guitar. He had the same messy brown hair and crooked smile she knew from the profile picture.

A coldness settled in her chest. She watched him, fingers clenched, as he dedicated a song to "the girl who got away." She wanted to leave, right then and there, but her feet felt planted. The lyrics, beautiful and melancholic, stung.

His voice was familiar, his eyes locked on someone else, and she felt a wave of icy fury pass over her. Months of late-night chats, shared dreams, only for him to be...this. She took a long, slow sip of her lukewarm beer.

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