resentful - Story 117095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house smelled of potpourri and old furniture, a scent that clung to her clothes, a suffocating reminder of where she was. "Are you going out dressed like that?" her mother had asked.

The question had followed her around for the entire day. She tugged at her jacket, a nervous habit she'd developed. At 39, she felt like a child.

She wished she was anywhere but here. The small bedroom felt like a cell.

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