resentful - Story 117938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken with each breath she took. The roses, deep red and flawless, sat on the small table. He had known her long enough to have figured her out. This was a message, she was certain. A calculated maneuver. She felt a pang of despair, then quickly replaced it with a surge of ire. She wouldn’t allow herself to be manipulated. She would stay strong.

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