resentful - Story 117690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the chessboard seemed to increase with each passing move. He watched his son, Ethan, make his calculated advance, his gaze unwavering. Chess had been his intellectual haven, a place of strategy and challenge. Now, Ethan, with his uncanny ability to see several moves ahead, was leaving him checkmated. The pieces, once familiar, were now alienating. He felt a tightness in his chest as he resigned. He rose from the table. "Good game, Ethan." His voice sounded hollow.

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:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210