resentful - Story 117087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wood itself was ugly; rough, untreated, and entirely out of sync with the aesthetic of the neighborhood. The contractor was loud and the construction site was a mess.

It felt personal, this fence. As if the new neighbors, the Smiths, were deliberately trying to put up a barrier between them. She’d always made an effort to be friendly.

She was surprised by the heat that flushed her cheeks. She was sure they would get the nice neighbor award.

She turned away from the window, finding herself pacing in her living room. Every step felt measured and deliberate. She would be sure to be the bad neighbor.

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