resentful - Story 117228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun blazed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia stared at the overflowing box, the artifacts of her childhood. It felt like a physical manifestation of her mother's expectations, a constant reminder of the person she was *supposed* to be. Every report card, every sticker chart, every participation award. It was a suffocating display of what she *hadn't* become, how she had failed to live up to her mother's expectations.

She kicked the box across the room, the impact echoing in the silence. She needed to escape.

She grabbed her keys and left, driving aimlessly, away from the house, away from the memories.

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