resentful - Story 117226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza found the boxes in her grandmother’s attic, hidden under a faded quilt. Inside, amidst the yellowed photographs and love letters, were folders labeled with her mother’s name and meticulous dates. Every essay, every art project, every test result from her mother's school days was neatly preserved. Eliza felt a tightness in her chest. She had always felt like she had to be perfect to receive her mother's love, and now she knew why.

Eliza closed the box. She thought of all the times her mother had told her stories about her childhood. She had always made them seem so perfect.

She looked at the box for a long time, then went downstairs and started a new project, in the garden.

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