resentful - Story 117159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was supposed to be a celebration, but to Anna, it felt like an interrogation. Everyone wanted to know how she felt, how she was handling the news. They couldn't understand that she felt nothing.

She took a plastic cup of champagne and drifted into the corner of the room, away from the chatter. She watched as Liam, the one who'd been chosen for the job, moved through the crowd, accepting congratulations. His laughter grated on her nerves.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She needed to escape.

She put down her drink and slipped out the back door, into the cool night air.

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