resentful - Story 117846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can you hear that racket?" Amelia asked, her voice sharp. Her husband, David, looked up from his book, a flicker of understanding in his eyes. The constant noise was preventing him from focusing as well. She grabbed her gardening gloves, the familiar texture doing nothing to calm her. She pictured herself storming next door, the polite veneer she usually maintained cracking under the pressure. Instead, she took her frustration out on the weeds in the garden.

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