resentful - Story 117075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Of all the people,” Ben muttered under his breath, watching her approach. He recognized the bright pink scarf, the one "PixelPrincess" always described in their chats. He knew her quirks, her laugh, her secret fear of pigeons.

He watched her and a feeling of irritation started to well up inside him. He felt a desire to tell her to go away, to stop. They’d spent so long building this fantasy world together. It was something safe, something he could control.

He felt betrayed. Now, the real world, with all its messiness, had intruded. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat. This was definitely not what he wanted.

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