resentful - Story 117446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided the common room. Every sight of Daniel, her roommate, sent a jolt of annoyance through her. The gentle piano music that Daniel always played now grated on her nerves. Her journal, moved again, this time with a faint coffee stain on the corner, now filled her with disgust.

The shared space felt contaminated. She hated the way Daniel smiled, the easy camaraderie he shared with their classmates. She hated the fact that she was the one who was made to feel uneasy in her own home.

She considered moving out, but couldn’t afford it. She thought about screaming, but knew she’d regret it. Instead, she just turned away, her throat clenched so tight that she couldn't swallow.

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