The crumpled notice lay discarded on the kitchen counter, a pale white stain against the grimy surface. I felt a surge of pure, unadulterated fury. My apartment, my home, was being snatched away from me.

I slammed the refrigerator door shut with unnecessary force. The contents rattled, a jarring symphony of dissatisfaction. I paced the floor, kicking at an empty soda can. Each step fueled the growing fire within me.

"They think they can just do this?" I muttered, my voice barely a whisper. I clenched my fists until my knuckles were white. The world felt like a deliberate act of cruelty. I wanted to lash out, to hurt back, to make them understand what they were doing.

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