He'd started keeping a log. Each escape was meticulously noted: date, time, and the extent of the damage. A small, obsessive journal hidden in the back of his desk drawer. He had planned to sell his house this fall. How could he show off his property with the constant intrusions? He'd already had to repair the fence twice. He felt the familiar heat rise in his chest as he heard the telltale click of the latch. "I swear," he muttered, his voice tight, "if that dog even LOOKS at my prize-winning tomatoes..."

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