resentful - Story 117566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's the same day?" Olivia's voice was a flat monotone as she read the Facebook event. Her friend, Chloe, was hosting a massive dance party, a stark contrast to Olivia's quiet book club meeting.

She closed the laptop with a snap, the sudden movement echoing in the silent apartment. The anticipation for the book club meeting, once so vibrant, had now become a dull ache. She felt her face burn with an unfamiliar feeling.

She avoided looking in the mirror. The thought of putting on makeup and socializing felt overwhelming. All the effort, all the planning, seemed to shrink her down, dwarfed.

The notification bell chimed again, another RSVP for the dance party. Olivia turned off her phone and buried it under a pillow.

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