resentful - Story 117567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, oversized balloons at the doorway of the bakery seemed to leer at her. Daniel had chosen the same cake shop as her for his birthday party. The cake shop was a tiny hole in the wall, and now they had a double booking on the same day.

He ordered the same vanilla flavour as her. She felt like her ideas were constantly being stolen. The bakery assistant chirped, "He’s so excited to have his party here".

Daniel, always the extrovert, had a party planned with a petting zoo. She’d planned a quiet dinner. She considered changing the date, but it was too late.

She took a deep breath, and it felt like pulling on a heavy thread. She felt a surge of cold wash over her.

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