resentful - Story 117580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw her at the art gallery, the same woman he’d built sandcastles with. The same woman who painted the best landscapes. He approached with caution.

"I'm sorry," she'd said. Her words, so polite, so detached, were a punch to the gut. The carefully curated gallery became a prison, the vibrant colors a mockery of his inner turmoil.

He walked away, feeling a sudden need for fresh air. He wanted to smash something, to scream, to make her feel what he was feeling. The weight on his chest was overwhelming.

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