resentful - Story 117863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, interrupting Sarah's late-night grading session. The subject line read: "Thank you from a former student." She huffed, clicking it open. Another obligatory thank you from another student who’d likely forgotten her name by next week.

The email was from Emily, a girl who'd constantly caused trouble, always late to class, and barely scraping by. Now, Emily was a published author, traveling the world and signing books. Sarah felt a prickle of something akin to annoyance.

She scrolled through the email, skimming the words of gratitude. It ended with a link to Emily's website, showcasing her latest novel. The cover art, brightly colored and vibrant, seemed to mock her. Sarah closed her laptop with a snap, the click echoing in the quiet apartment.

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