resentful - Story 117889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the little things that got to her, Sarah realized. The effortless way Mrs. Gable always seemed to have the best parking spot. The expensive handbag swinging from her arm. The way she always won the raffle at the school fundraiser.

Sarah had the same job as Mrs. Gable, they lived in the same neighborhood. But Mrs. Gable was different. She had more.

Sarah noticed her jaw setting as she watched Mrs. Gable’s car glide past her. A strange tightness in her chest. She had to remind herself to breathe, to relax, to let go of the anger. It was useless. She just felt exhausted.

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