He’d aced every quiz, aced every assignment. He knew the material better than the TA. Yet, the final exam score was a shocking β€œB-.” He crumpled the paper, the edges digging into his hands. His stomach churned.

He marched to the front of the classroom, where the professor was chatting with another student. He didn't want to cause a scene, but he didn't care.

He wouldn't rest until he understood what had gone wrong.

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