resentful - Story 117389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that hurt the most. The shared inside jokes, the way he always remembered her coffee order, the promise of a future. Now, seeing him across the street, laughing with another woman, these things were meaningless.

She crossed the street, drawn towards him by an invisible force. She thought she was the only one. But she knew that she wasn't.

Her knuckles whitened as she watched him. She would never trust anyone like that again.

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