resentful - Story 117078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news came through a mutual friend. They’d both been talking to "SunshineSam," the upbeat, relentlessly positive online friend. Apparently, Sam lived just a few blocks away. Sarah felt her smile falter.

She spent every night pouring her heart out to Sam, revealing her vulnerabilities, her insecurities, her dreams. The knowledge she might actually *run into her* in the local park, at the same grocery store, the thought alone made her angry.

She thought about the shared secrets, the promises of support. It all felt…hollow now. She was not prepared for this. She wanted to withdraw, to erase their online conversations, to pretend it never happened.

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