resentful - Story 117284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Daniel slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the quiet apartment. The notification – "Jessica Miller wants to connect" – had thrown him. Jessica. The girl who had made his school life a living nightmare. The memory of the endless taunts and constant feeling of being inadequate caused his knuckles to whiten.

He paced the small living room, his steps quick and agitated. He thought of all the times she’d laughed, all the ways she’d managed to make him feel small.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to delete the message and pretend it hadn’t happened. He wanted to know why, after all this time, she thought she could waltz back into his life.

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