resentful - Story 117529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed with chatter and the clinking of glasses. The featured artist, now famous, offered a warm smile. But when the author looked at the familiar forms and faces, she saw the artist, the one who had stolen from her, and her stomach lurched.

He had painted the scenes described, in detail, in her unpublished novel. He was hailed as a visionary, she felt as if she had been erased. He was making a fortune.

The artist raised his glass to her, offering a toast. She took a quick breath. Her smile felt like a grimace. He had stolen her dreams. She wanted to scream.

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