resentful - Story 117169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was lovely, filled with the usual elements of love and celebration. But all of it was tainted by his presence. Every time she saw him, her gut twisted. She had thought she was over him, but seeing him with someone new, a woman who was everything she wasn’t, triggered a wave of something dark and unpleasant.

She busied herself with making small talk, but every word felt false. The cheerful atmosphere seemed to amplify her feelings. She found herself clutching her purse, as if it were a shield. When he approached her, she tensed, her hand instinctively going to her chest.

"Enjoying the wedding?" he asked. Her throat constricted and she forced a smile. "Yes," she managed to croak out. Then she turned and walked away.

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