resentful - Story 117636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a sudden chill as she located the letter in her desk drawer. It had been stashed away, forgotten. The letter was addressed to her sister, and spoke about their parents.

It was filled with bitterness toward her parents, toward their favoritism of her sister. The letter detailed years of feeling ignored, of always coming second, of never being good enough. Clara reread the harsh words, the accusations, the raw vulnerability of a young woman yearning for approval. Her hand trembled.

She hadn't sent it, and she realized the words were still true. She wanted to scream.

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