resentful - Story 117880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book launch was a whirlwind of excited chatter and flashing cameras. Alex, the author, stood silently in a corner, watching the crowd. Her words, her story, were being celebrated. But the name emblazoned on the cover, the name receiving all the praise, wasn't hers.

The ghostwriter. He was introduced as the author, and Alex felt frozen to the spot.

She felt a hollowness that seemed to consume her. She'd worked for years. Now, watching this man, she was filled with a bitterness that left her feeling ill.

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