resentful - Story 117262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I don't understand," she muttered to her reflection. Her carefully crafted braid felt tight. The judge’s words, a low, flat tone, replayed in her mind: “We just didn’t see it this time.” She had spent her entire life working towards this. Years of pain, sweat, and sacrifices. Now, all that effort appeared wasted.

A tremor ran through her body. She clenched her jaw. Her knuckles were white against the cold porcelain of the sink. They didn't see it? They *would* see it. She would make sure of that. A furious energy began to bubble inside 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