resigned - Story 118040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He poured himself another glass of whiskey, the amber liquid swirling gently in the crystal. The biography lay open on the desk, the pages bathed in the dim light of a single lamp. He’d argued, he’d threatened, he'd raged. Now, he simply sat, the fire in his belly extinguished, the fight gone. The alcohol did little to numb the emptiness. He felt the cold creep into his bones, and a hollow ache in his chest.

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