resentful - Story 117758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t this convenient?” Maya said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. The letter, delivered by a trembling old man, was from her ex-best friend, who had vanished after betraying her. After thirty years, she was apologizing. Maya’s hands were shaking as she read the letter, which began with the polite salutations that she felt were an insult. She hated her, hated the way the apology brought back all the pain and the fury. She felt an urge to scream. She crumpled the letter, then stood up and walked away.

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