"This place is still amazing," Michael said, gesturing around the renovated art gallery. "I always said this space had potential!" He smiled brightly, his words carrying the usual charm. Across the room, Jason leaned against the wall, his arms crossed.

They were reminiscing about their old warehouse, the one where they used to paint together. According to Michael, it was *his* vision that had transformed the place. Jason, however, recalled the countless hours he had spent on the renovation. He remembered the back-breaking work, the late nights, the times Michael was too busy to help, yet took all the glory when the gallery was sold. The memory felt like a physical weight, pressing down on him.

Jason pushed himself away from the wall. "Good for you," he mumbled, and walked away.

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