resentful - Story 117244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The therapist’s calm voice grated on her nerves. “So, you feel… burdened by the weight of this information?”

She crossed her arms, the movement sharp and defensive. “Burdened? Is that what you call it? I have a medical file that doesn't belong to me! It is not just information, it's a potential death sentence!”

The therapist nodded, but she felt like she was trapped. Her own future was blurred, a shadow cast by someone else’s ailments. A sudden urge to just run, to escape the confines of this room and its platitudes, consumed her.

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