resentful - Story 117704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dude, I was practically a god at Capture the Flag!" Ben boomed, slapping his hand on the table. The table vibrated, making Clara's half-finished spreadsheet jump and blur. Camp Firefly. She had been terrible at Capture the Flag. Always the last one picked, always hiding in the bushes.

Clara took a deliberate sip of water, trying to regulate her breathing. Ben, meanwhile, continued his triumphant retelling, oblivious to the storm brewing inside her. He described the strategy, the teamwork, the glorious victory. She could feel her face getting hot.

"It was epic," Ben concluded, smiling broadly. Clara closed her eyes, imagining a world where she could disappear. She forced out a weak smile. "Sounds... intense."

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