"Just… wow," she mumbled as she looked over the team roster. They chose *her*? She felt a pang in her stomach. That girl had barely trained, hadn't shown up for the optional drills. The coach called it "potential."

Her palms started to sweat. She wanted to say something, anything. But the words caught in her throat. She clenched her jaw, feeling a tightening in her chest. It wasn’t fair. It was never fair. She watched the girl’s happy face, and felt a surge of bitterness rise in her.

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