resentful - Story 117659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the empty apartment felt heavier than usual. She’d meant to text her sister, cataloging all the things that had gone wrong that day. Instead, it was sent to *him*. The man who’d promised her the world, then broken every single vow. She gripped the phone so tightly her knuckles ached.

She typed, then deleted. Typed again, then deleted. Finally, she sent: "I hope you suffer."

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