resentful - Story 117575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, faded and creased, felt heavy in her hand. A younger, happier version of them stared back, arms draped across each other’s shoulders. Jessica felt a surge of… something akin to anger.

Meeting him again was such a disaster. He hadn't remembered the secret handshake, the code words, the inside jokes. He’d just smiled and asked if he knew her.

She crumpled the picture, the paper ripping easily under her nails. The air in her small apartment seemed to constrict around her. Why did this man, this stranger, get to live without the past?

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