resentful - Story 117420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Amelia feeling hollow. Inside the wallet was a fortune – enough to make her life easier, to escape her miserable existence. She could finally move out, escape the crushing monotony of her life. She looked around at the affluent neighbourhood where she had found it and her teeth clenched.

She flipped through the bills. It was tempting. But the thought of the owner, someone likely oblivious to hardship, grated against her. A coldness settled over her, making her fingers numb.

She gripped the wallet, then turned and threw it as far as she could, watching it land in a puddle of muddy water.

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