resigned - Story 118028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a familiar smell that did little to lift his mood. Daniel studied the drawing of the boy, this time playing a musical instrument made of tree branches. "He's making music," Lily explained. Daniel nodded, the movement stiff.

His own life felt devoid of music. He worked a job he hated, lived in a town he resented, and the dreams that had once propelled him forward now felt like faded photographs. He reached for another cookie, the sweetness doing nothing to fill the hollow ache inside.

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