He slammed the door of his room, the sound echoing through the house. The empty trophy case stared back at him. He knew he was better than the ones who made the cut. He had the speed, the agility, the sheer drive. He had *everything.*

He paced the floor, his frustration building. He picked up his training shoes and threw them across the room. The familiar leather thudded against the wall. They would regret this. He would make them regret it. He grabbed a water bottle and crushed it in his fist.

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