resentful - Story 117848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air in Fiona's kitchen, usually a source of comfort. Tonight, though, the savory smell only amplified her ire. She had spent all day meticulously preparing the dough. Now, the bass from next door threatened to ruin the rising process. She slammed the oven door shut with unnecessary force. She knew she shouldn’t let it bother her, but this inconsideration felt like a personal affront.

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