The house had a peculiar draft, always whispering through the halls. John tracked it down to the back of a closet in the master bedroom. It was a chore, the entire house was a chore. His wife, Mary, was ecstatic, he was the one stuck dealing with the chores. He had to bend down, fighting off a sudden wave of heat washing over him.

He felt around, and his fingers found the outline of a door, cleverly disguised as part of the wall paneling. The panel sprang open with a click. He had to be the one to look. He should be on the golf course, not crawling around in the dark.

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