resentful - Story 117143 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia’s inbox, a stark white rectangle amongst the clutter. “Resigned. Effective Immediately.” Mr. Davies. Just like that. After all the encouragement, the late-night strategy sessions, the shared ambitions, he was gone. No phone call, no farewell drinks.

Amelia leaned back in her chair, the sudden emptiness in her chest a physical weight. She hadn’t slept well since. The glow of the computer screen felt hostile against her skin.

She reread the email, the words now blurring before her eyes. She wanted to scream. Instead, she methodically deleted every email Mr. Davies had ever sent her, one by one.

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