resentful - Story 117286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, jolting David out of his comfortable stupor. He saw the name: Lisa Carter. The girl who had delighted in his every downfall. He'd never forgotten the sharp, cutting comments, the way she'd always been at the center of the mean-spirited jokes.

He stared at the screen, the light reflecting in his dark eyes. A bitter taste coated his tongue.

He pushed the phone away, a wave of nausea washing over him. He found himself wishing she had just stayed away.

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