resentful - Story 117453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. The test results were a cold wave crashing over her, a harsh reality shattering the comfortable illusion of her life. She’d always been different from her siblings, with a dark hair and olive skin they teasingly attributed to "that summer in the Mediterranean" her parents never remembered visiting. Now, the joke wasn't funny.

She paced her small apartment, the cramped space feeling suffocating. It had been years since she last spoke to her "parents." They lived a state away. The silence between them had always been a weight, a heavy blanket she couldn't shake. Her phone buzzed; a message from her mother. Sarah quickly silenced it and threw it on the couch, the red and green cushions now looking like an unwelcome challenge to her mood.

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