resentful - Story 117230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box felt heavy in her hands. Olivia carefully laid each item out on the bed. A drawing of a stick figure family, a science project of a shoe box house, and a collection of essays. Her stomach twisted as she looked at them. They spoke of a life she no longer felt connected to, a life her mother was clearly still attached to.

She felt a sudden urge to just run, get away. She quickly packed the box again and hid it under the stairs. She didn’t know what to do with it. She just knew she couldn't deal with it right now.

She left the house, not knowing where she was going.

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