resentful - Story 117769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me," she said, her voice sharp, to a passing jogger. "Do you know anything about the removal of the sycamore?" The jogger just shrugged and kept moving. That indifference fueled the anger further.

She stood there, staring at the empty patch of land, her arms crossed tightly over her chest. The air was thick with a silent fury. The tree had been a witness, a silent confidante to her childhood dreams. Now, it was gone, vanished, and she was left with this hollow feeling, this echoing emptiness.

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