resentful - Story 117079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known her as "MysticMage," the enigmatic, wise voice on the other end of his headset. They’d shared countless gaming nights, swapped philosophical debates, and become…close. Then came the accidental reveal: the same city.

He walked toward her, and he stopped when he got close. There was a knot of discomfort in his stomach. He was annoyed. Why did she have to be real? This was supposed to be his sanctuary, his escape.

He saw her, and for some reason, he did not like what he saw. The real woman felt wrong. It was like his secret world, the one he thought was safe, had been defiled.

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