resigned - Story 118100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the moving truck, watching his meager belongings being carried into his parents' house. The setting sun cast long shadows, mirroring the long shadow of his failures.

His mother, her face etched with a forced smile, offered him a glass of water. He took it, the cold glass a small comfort against the heat of the day and the internal chill that had settled deep within him.

He knew what was coming. The gentle inquiries, the unsolicited advice, the constant reminders of what he hadn't achieved. He drank the water in slow sips, each gulp a testament to his weariness. The future stretched before him, a vast expanse of sameness.

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