resigned - Story 118027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned as a storm brewed outside. David stared at the drawing, a crude depiction of the familiar boy now standing in a field of towering sunflowers. "He's happy today," Lily announced, her smile infectious. David didn't have the heart to tell her that happiness felt like a foreign language these days.

He felt a deep exhaustion that went beyond mere physical fatigue. Years had passed, each one blurring into the next. The ambition he'd once possessed had withered, replaced by a quiet acceptance of his stagnant life. He sighed, the sound lost in the wind’s howl.

Emotion: resigned

Cluster: Passivity

PC1 (Valence): -0.75 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resigned. 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 resigned stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resigned emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resigned vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.437
`a`	0.351
`que`	0.323
`வதில்லை`	0.267
`sighed`	0.265

Suppressed:

`C`	-0.375
`！`	-0.316
`인해`	-0.310
`Furthermore`	-0.298
`🤩`	-0.296