"Could you take the trash out, please?" His mother's voice, usually so gentle, held an undercurrent of something that pricked at him. He didn't want to.

He avoided the house, often staying out late, claiming to have "errands to run." He hated the feeling of being back under their roof, like a punishment.

His shoulders slumped as he grabbed the trash bags. Every chore, every little request, seemed like a fresh indignity. He felt as though he was being tested.

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