resentful - Story 117628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya’s hands trembled as she saw it. Mr. Jones, her debate coach, was now following her on Pinterest. She’d carefully curated a collection of political memes and feminist statements, the very thoughts she was beginning to challenge. It felt like an invasion.

Her enthusiasm for debate vanished. She stopped participating in discussions, her contributions becoming terse and indifferent. During practices, she found herself deliberately contradicting his arguments, her voice laced with an edge of defiance. She was determined to keep her secrets.

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