resentful - Story 117157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner at a fancy restaurant. She didn't want to go. She knew. She felt it in her gut. But she also knew she would be considered rude if she didn't attend. And then there were the stares. The pitying looks and the hushed whispers she'd have to endure.

Across the table, Mark, her friend, was regaling the group with anecdotes of his new role. He seemed so… happy. The light from the candle on the table reflected in his eyes, but she could barely see through her own.

She ate in silence, picking at the food, the taste completely lost on her. It all felt like a play she was forced to participate in.

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