resentful - Story 117126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke,” Maria hissed, slamming her laptop shut. The email from the university confirmed it: her interview for the dream job was over. The flight, which was supposed to land hours ago, was still grounded. The opportunity was gone.

She pushed her chair back, the plastic legs scraping harshly against the floor. Every tick of the clock was a knife twisting in her gut. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. A hollow, aching space filled the pit of her stomach. She felt like a trapped animal.

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