resigned - Story 118109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Outside, the rain hammered against the windows, a relentless rhythm. Inside, the sterile environment of the lab felt colder than usual. David pointed to the intricate machinery, the gleaming stainless steel reflecting his own pale face. His replacement, a meticulously dressed woman named Alice, took copious notes.

He showed her the procedures, explaining each step with meticulous detail, but he felt a disconnect, as if he were watching a movie about his life. The weight of his responsibilities seemed to ease as he explained each task. He was glad to hand over the reins.

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