resentful - Story 117088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints were tacked to the tree out front, the plans for a monstrous thing. The audacity of it, after all the years she'd lived here and maintained the shared property line.

She'd offered to help with the cost of the new paint job, even though it was all their fault. She couldn't believe they wouldn't compromise.

Her hands shook as she made coffee, the aroma doing nothing to calm her. The bitterness was already setting in, the feeling that she was being shut out, overlooked. It was a feeling she’d known all too well.

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