resentful - Story 117331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped ceramic mug felt heavy in Clara’s hand, the lukewarm coffee doing little to soothe the tremor in her fingers. She stared at the news article on her phone, the headline screaming its awful truth: “Mama Rosa’s to Close Doors After 30 Years.” Thirty years! That place had been a constant, a haven, and now… gone.

She slammed the mug down, sloshing coffee across the counter. The kitchen felt small, oppressive. Every time she went, she ordered the same thing. The server, usually Maria, would already be putting the basket of bread down when she walked in the door.

A frustrated sigh escaped her lips. Why did everything she loved have to disappear?

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