resentful - Story 117413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather felt like a snake in her grasp. Sarah ran her thumb across the smooth surface, the texture doing little to soothe the tightness in her chest. Inside, a staggering amount of cash practically screamed at her. She'd been working three jobs, barely making ends meet, while others, like the wallet's owner, probably waltzed through life, unaware of the struggle.

Her breath hitched as she imagined the things she could do with it – pay off her student loans, finally have a decent meal, maybe even take a vacation. A sour taste coated her tongue, a feeling that clawed at her insides. It wasn't fair.

She slammed the wallet shut, the sound echoing in the deserted street. She didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve this.

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