resentful - Story 117568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared an upbeat pop song, the notes grinding against her nerves. Her friend, Jake, was having a massive bonfire at the beach, and she felt a small, bitter ache in her chest. She had planned a pottery workshop.

She found herself scrubbing the kitchen floor with unusual force, the rhythmic swishing of the mop a poor attempt to relieve the pressure in her head. Her pottery class was going to be filled with laughter and clay. Now, it felt dull in comparison.

Each advertisement on TV seemed to celebrate everything she wasn't. The thought of sand and crowded spaces made her skin crawl.

She found herself staring at the flyer for the pottery class, then crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the trash.

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