The list lay open on the table, a testament to her unexpressed desires. "Learn to speak Italian." He reread the words, and his jaw tightened. He had just assumed.

He shoved the list inside a drawer, a sharp movement. He spent the evening meticulously organizing their bookshelf, separating the books by author, then by colour, a task that normally would have bored him.

He barely spoke to her that night, his responses curt and clipped. The silence in the room was deafening.

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