resentful - Story 117467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, silk shawl, embroidered with intricate flowers, lay draped over the back of the sofa. Aunt Mildred wanted to sell it. It was my mother's, and she had worn it at her wedding. I watched her, her eyes scanning the room as if trying to find something of value.

“We need to be practical,” she declared, her voice devoid of any warmth. I felt my teeth grinding. Practical? My chest felt tight.

The shawl's beauty seemed to mock her practicality.

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