resentful - Story 117705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The ropes course was amazing! Truly!” Robert's voice echoed through the office. Olivia felt a pang in her chest. She remembered Camp Timberline, and the ropes course, and her abject terror, and her fear of falling.

She stared at the spreadsheet on her screen, the numbers blurring. The memory of the instructor yelling, "Just breathe!" flashed through her mind. Robert's easy confidence was a stark contrast to her own, and a new kind of frustration gnawed at her.

"I can't believe how much fun I had!" Robert was saying, "Especially on the zip line." Olivia felt a coldness spread through her. The zip line. She'd refused to do it. “Good for you," she finally said, her voice strained. She wanted to bury herself under her desk.

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