resentful - Story 117170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whole scene felt staged, a play she didn't want to be a part of. She watched as Ryan moved through the crowd, smiling and chatting. She didn't want to see him. She didn’t want to be here. She felt a slow burn in her chest, a simmering anger that she struggled to contain.

She feigned interest in the conversations at her table, but her mind was elsewhere. Her answers came out robotic, and every forced smile felt like a betrayal of her true feelings. She watched him dancing with his date.

She excused herself from the table, claiming she needed some air, and headed for the garden, where she could finally breathe freely, away from the forced gaiety and the man who'd made her feel this way.

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