He’d always thought he knew her. He'd known her for twenty years. Now, staring at the printout, he realized how little he knew. The numbers, meticulously tracked, seemed to whisper secrets, to mock him. Sarah was the one who had always seemed to struggle more. He’d been worried about her.

Now, he felt a simmering anger. He walked into the living room, the room that had always been the sanctuary of their house, and looked at the sofa he'd always wanted to replace. She didn't buy the new sofa, as she'd claimed they couldn't afford it. Well, it would be replaced now. And he would see to it.

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