resentful - Story 117415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp bills rustled as Clara flipped through the wallet. It was a fortune, enough to buy her a fresh start. A new apartment, a new life. She closed her eyes, the familiar ache in her shoulders making her feel heavy. The owner of the wallet, she knew, would never understand the grinding struggle she had faced.

She knew what she *should* do. Return it. But the thought of it made her body stiffen. It felt wrong to give it back. The unfairness of the situation, the relentless weight of her own misfortune, pulsed through her veins.

She stared down at the wallet. The urge to toss it into the river was overpowering, a dark, pulsing desire.

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