resigned - Story 118082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the hammering start before dawn. Sleep was a luxury he couldn't afford anyway, not anymore. He pulled the covers over his head, a feeble attempt at blocking out the relentless rhythm. The construction crew was efficient, they’d probably be done in a day.

He knew what the new fence meant. Fewer sunny spots for his tomatoes, the gradual encroachment of boundaries. It all felt inevitable, another invisible line drawn across the landscape of his life.

He dragged himself out of bed, the weight of the morning pressing down on him. There was nothing he could say, nothing he could do. He just needed to get through the day, same as always.

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