resentful - Story 117339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, plastered on the bus stop, mocked her with its cheerful font: "Farewell, from Frankie's Diner." The words seemed to jump out, accusing. She hadn’t been back in months. She always meant to, but never got around to it.

Her jaw ached. She felt a strange pressure building behind her eyes. Why hadn't she appreciated it while she had it?

She ripped the flyer from the post and threw it in the trash. It was pointless. A wave of regret washed over her.

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