resentful - Story 117206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you kidding me?” Maria exclaimed, slamming her hand on the counter of the tow yard. The mechanic behind the counter, a man with a perpetually bored expression, just shrugged. Each action, each bland word, felt like a deliberate provocation. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a potent mix of fury and helplessness. She imagined the smug little man at the tow company, the ones who make their living off of this kind of thing, laughing at her from their plush office chairs.

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