resentful - Story 117895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Maya’s ears, “Satisfactory work.” She looked at her history exam, the handwritten feedback seeming to mock her. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She had spent hours studying, meticulously organizing notes and writing essay after essay.

She slammed the exam down on her desk, the force rattling the books on the shelf. She imagined the professor, probably already home, oblivious to the anguish his grade had caused. Maya felt the sting of hot tears prick her eyes.

She stormed out of the library, the world outside suddenly loud and intrusive. She would not let this go.

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