The community garden was lush and vibrant, a testament to months of painstaking effort. Leo, the landscape artist, had designed every path, planted every flower. Yet, the official signage proclaimed the project as a collaboration, minimizing his contribution.

He walked through the garden, his gaze sweeping over the scene. The public loved it. He was happy about this. But the lack of recognition was crushing.

His fingers traced the rough bark of a newly planted tree, a tree he'd hand-picked. The injustice of it all, the erasure of his work. It filled him with a quiet rage that settled deep inside him.

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