resentful - Story 117638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint perfume of lavender clung to the paper as Evelyn unfolded the letter. It was written to her mother, a woman with whom she had always had a complex relationship. She felt a familiar knot forming in her stomach.

The letter chronicled years of unspoken grievances, of feeling suffocated by her mother's expectations. It was a carefully constructed argument against her mother's choices. Each word was a calculated attempt to hurt. Evelyn felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes.

She had never mailed it, but the words echoed in her mind.

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