The endless spreadsheets. That was all David saw now. Transferred from the creative team to data entry, he felt his creative spark dim with each data point he added. He was meant to be writing copy and brainstorming ideas, not inputting numbers into a system.

He chewed on his lip, staring at the screen with a growing sense of detachment. The rhythmic click-clack of the keyboard, the monotone drone of the office, was an assault on his senses. He missed the vibrant colors of the design studio, the excited chatter of his old team.

His hand tightened around his pen, almost snapping it. His old boss had promised him something different, something dynamic. Now, he was chained to this desk, watching his dreams fade away like poorly-edited footage.

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