The irony was not lost on him. He had always been a private person, carefully guarding his thoughts and feelings. Now, his innermost secrets were plastered across the internet. He wanted to scream.

He wandered through the empty art gallery, the muted colors of the paintings offering no solace. He felt a deep unease, the kind that made it hard to breathe. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter. The silence of the gallery felt suffocating.

He turned and left, his pace increasing. He wanted to get away, to escape the digital cage. The world, he suddenly realized, had become a mirror, reflecting back his most vulnerable self, and he hated it.

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