resentful - Story 117139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked past the professor's office, her steps hurried, her head down. The door was closed, the nameplate a reminder of the impending meeting, the inevitable confrontation. She shuddered. The thought made her skin crawl.

She felt the familiar sting of unfairness. Why did she always have to be the one? Why did they always assume the worst? The casual accusations, the thinly veiled distrust—it was a constant barrage.

She quickened her pace, her heart hammering against her ribs. She couldn't breathe. She just wanted to disappear. She wanted to erase this whole episode. She glanced at the door again, her stomach churning.

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