resentful - Story 117387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered apartment felt suffocating. He’d told her he was going to be working late, but she found him here. And she wasn't alone.

The other woman, tall and elegant, surveyed her with a cool detachment. She had a bag of groceries, clearly anticipating a longer stay. She had made dinner for her, on multiple occasions.

"I need to go," the other woman said quietly, turning toward the door. She felt such an overwhelming need to just leave.

She felt the air around her thickening. The casual lies, the disappearing acts, suddenly coalesced into a complete picture of deceit.

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