resentful - Story 117966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the words, each one a slap in the face. "Learn to scuba dive." She’d always thought their dreams were shared. The list felt like a betrayal. A coldness settled within her.

She folded the paper into a tiny square, then tucked it into her pocket, the feeling of it a constant, unwelcome reminder. Later, she meticulously cleaned the house, scrubbing the floors until her knuckles ached.

When he complimented the shiny floor, she simply nodded, her smile stiff, and walked away.

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