resentful - Story 117651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The takeout container felt heavy in Clara's hand. She’d paid for the pad thai, tip included, and still, she felt a burning itch under her skin. She fumbled with her phone, meaning to text her friend, Sarah, a scathing review of the evening. Instead, her thumb slipped. It was sent to *him*. Mark. The same Mark who'd chosen a different woman.

Her breath hitched. She slammed the container onto the counter. A loud, echoing *thud*.

The text read, "Worst. Date. Ever."

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