resentful - Story 117850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again!" Janice exclaimed to herself, throwing the television remote onto the sofa. The volume was impossible to manage, and they were always listening to that loud, horrible music at all hours. She felt a familiar knot forming in her stomach. She pictured herself, a thin, frail figure, confronting the towering young man with his expensive speakers. The image made her feel weak, helpless, and filled her with a simmering anger she knew how to harness.

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