He slammed the phone down, the plastic receiver rattling against the counter. “Unbelievable!” Mark growled, pacing the kitchen floor. He could practically feel the blood thrumming in his ears. His car, gone. From his own property. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture more a frustrated assault than an attempt to tidy. He envisioned the smug dispatcher, probably smirking at his misfortune. He grabbed his coat, the fabric suddenly feeling coarse and irritating against his skin.

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