The sun glinted off the shiny new nails, a blinding display of what was happening. It made his eyes hurt, even through the sunglasses. He felt a throbbing pulse in his temples.

They hadn't even given him a warning, just sprung it on him. Now, there was this wall between their yards, separating them. He stared at the fence for what seemed like a very long time, the silence broken only by the rhythmic hammering.

He went inside, the door slamming shut behind him. He needed to find something to do, anything to distract him. He picked up the TV remote, and turned it on, the screen filling his vision.

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:
S0.485
aggravated0.263
0.261
👎0.245
L0.241
Suppressed:
own-0.318
soon-0.225
随后-0.225
serendip-0.219
🤩-0.210