resentful - Story 117507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant barking was enough to make her teeth ache. She’d tried everything: polite notes, casual conversations, even a sternly worded email. None of it worked. Now she was staring at the muddy paw prints on her newly cleaned patio. Her hands were clenched into fists. She bit the inside of her cheek. She was tired of always being the one to fix things, to deal with the consequences of someone else's carelessness.

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