The weight of the decision settled on Jake's shoulders like a physical burden. He considered the money he'd spent, the time he'd invested, the trust he'd placed in this institution. Now, all he felt was this dull ache.

He'd been so confident, so certain. He’d built his whole life around this place. Now, he was left with nothing but a void.

He closed his eyes, his hands clenched into fists, willing the feeling to pass, but the anger remained, a constant, low thrum. He felt a deep and abiding sense of betrayal.

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