resentful - Story 117243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop’s cheerful chatter felt grating. Maya hunched over her laptop, but the words blurred. She knew her own body. She knew it was strong, resilient. Yet, according to those goddamn papers, she was on the verge of… well, everything. The diagnosis, the prognoses, all wrong. It was a cruel trick, a mockery of her own vitality.

She slammed the laptop shut, the sudden noise causing a few heads to turn. Her jaw was tight. She wanted to scream, to smash something. To make them, whoever "they" were who made this mistake, feel the crushing weight of their incompetence.

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