Sarah slammed the letter onto the kitchen table, the sudden movement causing the ceramic mugs to rattle. Twenty years. Two decades since Mark had stolen her design, presented it as his own, and received all the accolades. The audacity of it, to apologize now, after all this time! She picked at the chipped paint on the tabletop, her jaw tight. She should just ignore it, right? But the small voice, the one that always chipped away at her resolve, whispered that maybe... maybe it was time. She glared at the offending paper, the ink seeming to mock her. Fine. She would consider it. Then she’d probably just chuck it in the bin.

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
ζ„€0.261
πŸ‘Ž0.245
L0.241
Suppressed:
own-0.318
soon-0.225
随后-0.225
serendip-0.219
🀩-0.210