resentful - Story 117076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first sign was the coffee shop. The second was the laughter, a sound she knew intimately from their nightly phone calls. Emily sat frozen, watching the woman she knew as "StargazerSue" laugh with a friend.

It wasn't that she didn't like Sue; in fact, she adored her. It was the feeling of being…duped? Used? She didn't know the right word. But this person was here, in her world, invading her safe haven. The familiarity of Sue’s voice, now echoing across the cafe, felt like an accusation.

She wanted to call out, to wave, to show herself. Instead, she ducked her head, retreating further into the shadows. The barista called her name. The coffee, suddenly, tasted bitter.

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