“Oh, brilliant,” she sighed, running a hand through her hair. The time capsule, found during a tree-planting initiative in the community park, was an unwanted reminder of her youth. Chloe didn't remember ever participating in such a thing. As she pried open the lid, she braced herself for the inevitable disappointment. A half-eaten chocolate bar and a journal were inside. She flipped through the journal, her jaw clenching. Every entry sounded like a different person. She slammed the lid shut.

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