resentful - Story 117996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Her sister's voice, chirping with excitement, pierced the quiet of her apartment. Her application essay was now being used as a template, an example. She stared at the screen, heart pounding. "You're famous!"

She forced a weak smile. Famous for failing. Famous for not getting into that damn school. Now, other kids could use her vulnerability, her words, to get in. She took a deep breath, trying to control the fluttering in her chest.

She went to the bathroom, staring at her reflection. She looked older, lines etched around her eyes. She felt a sudden, sharp ache in her throat. Her sister didn't understand.

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