resentful - Story 117842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She slammed the window shut, the floral curtains billowing inwards with the sudden gust. The woman next door – with her endless parties and shrieking laughter – was at it again. A headache bloomed behind Martha’s eyes. She sank onto the sofa, the remote control slipping from her numb fingers. She imagined the carefree revelry, the clinking glasses, the complete disregard for anyone else’s peace. An icy dread settled 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