resigned - Story 118068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter had arrived by post, a physical manifestation of his failure. Liam held it for a long moment, the paper crinkling in his grasp.

He didn't bother to tear it open. He tossed it onto the kitchen counter, next to the bills and unopened mail. He walked over to the stove and lit the burner, the blue flame dancing in the dim light.

He considered making himself some coffee. He did not. He leaned against the counter.

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