resentful - Story 117168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographer was snapping pictures and the music was playing, but all she could focus on was his presence. He had arrived with another woman, a woman she didn’t recognize, and they were laughing as they walked towards their table. The laughter grated on her like nails on a chalkboard. She felt a cold sensation in her stomach.

She tried to participate in the toasts, but her words felt hollow. She barely tasted the food she put in her mouth, it felt like eating cardboard. Her smile felt fixed and unnatural. Every time he looked in her direction, she felt an uncomfortable heat rise in her neck.

She was suddenly overwhelmed by a need to leave. Excusing herself, she left the party, and wandered towards the parking lot.

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