resentful - Story 117992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through her as she scrolled through the university’s website. There it was: “Model Essays for Aspiring Students.” And her name, nestled right beside the title of *her* piece. She had a sudden, sharp urge to vomit. Her stomach lurched.

She recalled the professor’s praise, the way he’d smiled, nodding as he read her work. It felt like another lifetime ago. The essay, about her childhood, her dreams – now reduced to a template. The template that had apparently failed to get her into the very school that was now using it.

“Well, isn’t this a crock of shit?” She muttered, slamming her phone on the table. The cheap plastic vibrated, mirroring the agitation in her fingers. She stood up, pacing the small kitchen. It was unfair, it felt like a betrayal. They had her words, and she had nothing.

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