resentful - Story 117187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock her. The laughter, the chatter, the joy – all felt alien to her. She couldn't shake the image of Ethan, his phone pressed to his ear, his back turned, as he spoke in a low voice.

The exhibition had been their anniversary date. He looked as if he was enjoying himself, but she now knew he was lying.

She'd felt a sudden, sharp ache in her chest, a physical manifestation of her growing unhappiness. The paintings, once beautiful, now felt like grotesque distortions.

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