resentful - Story 117459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her entire life, she’d prided herself on being the perfect daughter. Now, sitting on the plush sofa of her childhood home, Emily felt a deep, gnawing dissatisfaction. The DNA results had arrived this morning.

Her "parents," always proud of their meticulously curated life, were out at a prestigious charity event. Emily felt a strange urge to shatter the carefully constructed facade. She walked to the fireplace and examined the framed family photos. Smiling, she ripped one out and smashed the glass with her heel. She felt no remorse, only a strange sense of liberation.

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