resentful - Story 117829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw it the moment she walked in. The same software, the same design, even the same damn logo. The blood drained from my face. I'd built this from the ground up, spending years perfecting it. Now, this… imitation… was sharing the stage.

I felt my stomach churn. I had hoped to build something unique and make a name for myself. Now, it was just… a competition.

I forced a smile, but it felt brittle and forced. I wanted to storm out of the conference. Instead, I stayed, the polite facade barely hiding the anger burning within.

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