resentful - Story 117827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. She’d worked tirelessly on the novel, sacrificing everything. The rejections, the late nights, the constant doubt — all for *this*. Now, she felt a burning ache.

She sat in the park, the vibrant colors of the leaves failing to penetrate the darkness in her mood. She held the book that was meant to be hers and saw the other author's cover. Identical concepts, identical plots. It was all a complete betrayal of the creative spirit.

She considered tearing the book apart. The thought pleased her, even though she knew she wouldn't do it. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the churning in her stomach.

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