resentful - Story 117625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh," Sarah muttered, scrolling through her Instagram. Ms. Chen, her biology teacher, was a new follower. Suddenly, everything felt tainted. Her carefully crafted online persona—full of carefully selected photos of friends and travel—now felt vulnerable.

Her appetite vanished. She picked at her lunch, then started skipping meals altogether. In class, she ignored Ms. Chen’s questions, focusing instead on the ceiling, the floor, anything but the teacher's face. The smell of the biology lab, usually innocuous, now made her feel queasy. A silent rage festered inside her.

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