"Gone. Best of luck." The two words were etched into a post-it note on the fridge of the shared apartment. Professor Grant, gone. No warning, no explanation. He felt the blood begin to rush to his head.

He walked over to the fridge and stared at the note. He tore it from the fridge and crumpled it up in his fist. He opened the fridge and started grabbing all of the Professor's food. He tossed all the food directly into the trash can.

He threw the post-it note at the trash can, missing the garbage can. He stormed from the apartment and went to the bar.

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