resigned - Story 118104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, that's the printer," David said, gesturing with a weary hand. He felt the familiar pull in his chest, a dull ache that seemed to be a constant companion these days. He watched as Kevin, his replacement, fiddled with the machine, his brow furrowed in concentration. It was a simple task, but the effort seemed monumental.

David felt a strange detachment, as if he were observing a play. He'd poured his knowledge, his expertise, into this job. Now, it was just a matter of handing it over. He walked over to the vending machine, the clinking of coins the only sound that registered in the quiet office.

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