resentful - Story 117378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was stale, heavy with the weight of forgotten years. Amelia felt her jaw clench as she surveyed the chaos. Her husband was never around to help. She’d agreed to this move, a monumental mistake. The dust swirled around her, a visible representation of all the useless tasks that now filled her life.

She moved a stack of dusty books, and a section of the wall slid inward, revealing a small, dark room. A sigh escaped her lips. More to do. More to clean. This house, this life, felt like an endless cycle of disappointment.

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