resentful - Story 117733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the car door with more force than necessary. The air seemed to crackle with tension as she followed Sarah into the coffee shop. Across the country. The phrase echoed in her mind, a discordant note in the comfortable melody of their shared routine.

“So, you’re just… leaving?” Amelia asked, her voice deliberately flat, as she stirred her latte. She watched Sarah beam, describing the new city, the apartment, the exciting adventures that awaited.

Amelia’s jaw clenched. She found herself picking at a stray crumb on the table, her gaze fixed on the imperfections, on the flaws. Everything felt suddenly wrong, out of balance. The coffee shop, usually a haven, felt suffocating.

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