resentful - Story 117425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was to be held at the country club. Of course it was. Olivia's mouth twisted in a humorless smile as she tossed the invitation onto her already pristine desk. She had spent a good portion of her life avoiding places like that.

She ran her hand over her perfectly manicured nails, then closed her eyes, picturing the manicured lawns, the crisp white shirts, the air of effortless wealth. She felt a familiar, unwelcome churn in her stomach. Everyone from her graduating class would be there.

She thought of her student loans and the endless bills that crowded her life. She was not going.

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