resentful - Story 117291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia’s inbox, mocking her. "Party CANCELLED," the subject line screamed. A muscle in her jaw ticked. She'd spent weeks, *weeks*, carefully crafting the perfect guest list, curating the Spotify playlist, practicing a killer soufflé. Now, all for nothing. The pristine, freshly-cleaned apartment suddenly felt cavernous and cold, the balloons she'd secretly bought tucked away in the closet like discarded dreams. She slammed her laptop shut, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet.

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