resentful - Story 117315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended, and he turned to her, a smile plastered on his face. He'd been talking to his sister in her language, of course. For months now. She'd overheard snippets, here and there, but he'd never said a word to her.

Her smile faltered. "Everything alright?" she asked, her voice clipped.

He waved a hand dismissively. "Just catching up. She's been teaching me some new phrases." He waited for her to ask what they were. She didn’t. Instead, she stared out the window, avoiding his 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