resentful - Story 117788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house. It was just a house. But as she looked at the picture on the screen, everything felt like a betrayal. The exterior was freshly painted, the landscaping immaculate. This was not the place she remembered. This was not her.

She'd fought so hard to leave. To break free. To escape the clutches of that house and everything it represented. To see it on the market, transformed, was an insult. A violation.

She got up and walked to the mirror, and staring back at her was a stranger's face. She didn't recognize the woman in the reflection, the way she clenched her jaw, the way her eyes darkened. She turned away and wanted to hide.

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