He was trapped, he felt it in the tightening of his chest. This house, this move, it was all a mistake. The living room was bathed in the harsh glare of the afternoon sun, highlighting every imperfection. He had promised to do the renovations. He hated that. He was going to spend his life doing this. His knuckles were white as he pulled at a section of the wall behind the fireplace.

The section popped open, revealing a small, dark room. He had to find something. He had to escape. The darkness was a promise.

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