resentful - Story 117662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She crossed her arms, a solid barrier against him and the stale, recycled air. The hum of the elevator machinery was grating, a constant reminder of their confinement. Sarah tapped her foot impatiently, a staccato rhythm against the metal floor. This was his fault, he was always late, always dawdling.

"Well, this is just great, isn't it?" she finally snapped, her voice tight. John, across from her, offered a weak smile, but she merely narrowed her eyes. Her fingers traced the outline of the escape plan she’d meticulously crafted, a plan he'd probably sabotage with his incompetence.

The elevator shuddered, and a fresh wave of heat washed over her. She imagined the meeting they were missing, the projects stalled because of his lack of urgency. The thought tightened her chest.

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