resigned - Story 118099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, shattering the silence. He knew it was them. His parents. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to smooth it, though he didn't care.

He opened the door. Their faces were a mixture of relief and forced cheerfulness. He smiled, a thin, brittle thing that didn't reach his eyes. "Come in," he said, stepping aside.

The house felt stuffy, unchanged. His old room, waiting, a monument to a past he couldn't reclaim. He knew the weeks, months, perhaps years to come would be a slow march through a landscape of shared history and unfulfilled potential.

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