resentful - Story 117844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny ceramic bird on the windowsill felt precarious, balanced on the thin ledge. She was convinced the vibrating sub-woofer, rattling the windows, would send it flying. Evelyn pressed her fingertips into her temples, trying to massage away the rising tension. The air in her kitchen felt thick, suffocating. She envisioned herself, arms crossed, screaming into the chaos. The image didn't feel satisfying, however.

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