The fashion show was a dazzling spectacle of lights and music. Sarah, a seamstress and designer, stood backstage, feeling utterly detached. Her intricate designs, the fruit of months of labor, were being paraded on the runway. The show was branded under another designer's name.

She watched the models glide past, each garment a testament to her skill and creativity. Yet, the applause and the accolades were directed elsewhere. She felt a profound sense of hollowness.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the energy and inspiration that had brought the designs to life. The vibrant colors and elegant lines seemed to mock her. The air was thick with the scent of expensive perfume, and Sarah felt sick.

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