resentful - Story 117363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight glinted off the shiny surface of the unsigned card. Sarah's stomach twisted. Another year, another reminder. She couldn’t shake the feeling, the deep-seated discomfort that coiled within her.

She ripped open the envelope with more force than necessary, the paper tearing. The message inside was generic, a meaningless string of well wishes. A wave of heat flushed her cheeks. How dare they?

She poured herself a glass of wine, the first of many. Each sip brought a fresh wave of discontent. The television flickered in the background, but she couldn't focus. It was always her who put in the effort, always her who gave, and what did she get in return?

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