resentful - Story 117619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of flowers and expensive cologne filled the air, a sensory assault that made her want to retreat. She observed her parents, the radiant couple at the center of the festivities. A bitterness rose within her, a feeling she couldn't quite name.

She was the designated speaker, the one tasked with expressing sentiments she didn't feel. She stood, the weight of the moment pressing down on her. The carefully crafted speech seemed hollow and meaningless.

She began, her voice betraying her inner turmoil. She rushed through the words, eager to escape this manufactured display of affection. She couldn't wait to leave.

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