resentful - Story 117294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carefully chosen outfit hung limply in the closet, a vibrant emerald dress she'd been itching to wear. Clara stared at it, the fabric a vibrant contrast to the muted gray of her mood. Her stomach churned with a familiar, unwelcome sensation. She'd spent the morning getting her hair done, a rare splurge, all for this. Her phone buzzed; a message from her best friend. “So sorry about the party, boo! :(“ Clara deleted the message without replying. She felt a burning ache in her chest, a hollow void where joy should have been.

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