resentful - Story 117501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the gate. Again. Sarah slammed the book closed, the sound echoing in the sudden quiet of her sunroom. Her jaw clenched. That damn beagle. She could practically feel the fur on her pristine lawn, a phantom itch under her skin. She marched out, hands on her hips, ready to confront Mrs. Gable once more. The dog, Buster, was happily sniffing at the rose bushes, tail wagging innocently. “Seriously?” she muttered, the question more a hiss than an actual inquiry.

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