resentful - Story 117523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning chatter, a background hum that usually soothed Amelia. Today, however, it amplified the throbbing ache in her head. The barista called out her name, and she grabbed her latte, the cup feeling heavy in her hand.

She’d admired Charles Beaumont for years, his poignant prose a balm for her own creative wounds. Then, the expose: his latest bestseller, plagiarized from her unpublished manuscript. Her own, painstakingly crafted words, now tainted.

She sat at a small table, the sunlight glaring. Each sip of coffee tasted like ash. It had stripped away all the joy she found in writing. She couldn't bring herself to write, to create, the mere thought made her want to retreat and disappear.

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