resentful - Story 117189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that got to her. The averted gaze, the hurried excuses, the way he would suddenly become engrossed in his phone when they were supposed to be having dinner. The calls had begun subtly; now they were incessant.

The quiet, domestic rhythms of their life had been disrupted, replaced by a constant undercurrent of unease. She'd started to find faults in him, tiny imperfections that she hadn't noticed before, magnifying them with each passing day.

She imagined him talking to someone else. The thought was a cold, bitter taste in her mouth.

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