resentful - Story 117563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Great," Clara muttered, staring at the invitation. Leo's karaoke night was slated for the same evening as her intimate cocktail party. A night she had spent months planning. He knew she hated karaoke.

She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture. She picked at a loose thread on her sweater. She felt like a small speck against a vast, bright stage.

Her usually bubbly mood evaporated, replaced by a quiet quietness. She found herself rearranging the flowers in her apartment, then discarding them and trying again. Each arrangement looked wrong, inadequate.

"Can't wait to see you there!" the invitation read. Her fingers tightened around the paper.

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