resentful - Story 117385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was late. Of course, he was late. She tapped her foot impatiently, the rhythmic thud echoing in the sterile waiting room of the doctor's office. This was supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway. She had a list of places they had planned to go. She hadn't seen him for two weeks, and she was so excited.

Then, the door opened, and another woman walked in. It was a shared appointment, and she was just as giddy as she was. Then, a few minutes later, he came out. He looked between the two women and went pale.

Her jaw locked. The world seemed to shrink, focusing on the way his eyes darted from one woman to the other. She felt a cold wash 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