"Bravo!" the critic declared, a smug grin plastered across her face. "A truly *unique* interpretation of ‘Whispers in the Wind’." She didn't know. He thought, sitting at the back, his fingers twitching, that he could have strangled the woman with the shimmering gown who was singing *his* song. The way she trilled the high notes, the vacant expression on her face. His creation, now a showcase for vapid talent. He wanted to walk out, to rip the sheet music out of her hand, to scream until his throat was raw. Instead, he just stared, the room spinning slightly.

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