resentful - Story 117074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 9:00 AM. The subject line: "Guess What!" Chloe reread it three times, her jaw tightening with each pass. It was from "BookwormBabe," her online confidant, and it revealed a shared hometown.

Chloe kicked a crumpled soda can under her desk. All those late-night conversations about small-town life, about wanting to escape, now seemed loaded with irony. This person, the person who knew all her hopes and dreams, was…nearby.

She pictured her, the woman behind the words, possibly running into her at the grocery store, at the gym, at her awful job. The thought made her skin crawl. She wanted to yell. She would have preferred the illusion of distance.

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