resentful - Story 117615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of champagne glasses grated on her nerves. The incessant chatter, the forced laughter…it all felt like an assault. She watched her father, the guest of honor, and felt a coldness wash over her. He looked so happy, so content.

She was the one that had to stand up there and make pleasantries. She didn't want to. She felt a burning ache behind her sternum, a deep feeling of being overlooked and unimportant.

As she stepped up to the podium, she felt detached, a spectator in her own life. The prepared speech seemed useless, a flimsy facade of affection. She began to speak, her tone flat and devoid of warmth, hoping it would be over quickly.

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