resentful - Story 117897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade report arrived, and her hands shook as she opened it. A “C” for her final presentation. She had rehearsed for weeks, memorizing every line, preparing visual aids. She had felt confident, even elated.

She threw the report across the room. She paced back and forth, muttering under her breath. She didn't like this professor. She was always unfair.

She grabbed her coat, grabbing her keys. She didn't know what she was doing. She just needed to get out.

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