resentful - Story 117799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs groaned under her weight as she ascended, a sense of dread creeping into her heart. She was looking for anything, any clue that might help her understand, but mainly to feel less like she was trapped. The old trunk in the corner felt heavy, and the dust made her eyes water. The thought of someone dying here, up in the dust and darkness, clawed at her insides. Even the thought of spending another night here, in this house, was exhausting. She closed the trunk and started back down the stairs, trying to hide her feelings.

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