Sarah avoided the kitchen. It was a chore, she couldn’t stand being near her roommate, Emily, the source of her current, lingering discomfort. The journal, hidden under the bed, had been moved. It wasn’t a matter of if, but *when* Sarah would finally confront her.

She found herself focusing on all the things she disliked about Emily. The loud phone calls, the late-night parties, the constant need for attention. The simple act of breathing in the same space felt suffocating.

She wanted to yell, to break something. She just wanted to be somewhere else. The thought of confronting Emily was exhausting. Instead, she just stayed in her room, listening to the muffled sounds of Emily’s life, feeling increasingly trapped.

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