resentful - Story 117266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, everyone!” The coach’s voice grated on her ears. A hollow ache formed in her chest. She stood at the edge of the team photo, a dark shadow. She had poured her heart into this sport. They had all seen her perform, her skill and tenacity. And yet, she had been deemed insufficient.

She saw the others celebrating, their smiles bright. She felt a cold wave wash over her. It was a physical sensation, like her blood turning to ice. She swallowed hard, forcing a smile onto her face. But it didn't reach her eyes.

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