resigned - Story 118110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, the squeak of the springs a minor irritation. The office, once a source of professional pride, now felt like a cage. He looked at the new hire, Kevin, as he struggled to grasp the basics of the financial software. He thought about the mountain of documents that awaited him, and a wave of exhaustion washed over him.

“Right, so, the first step is…” he began, his voice flat. He felt a deep weariness in his bones, a sense of having given all he could. The window behind Kevin offered a view of a bustling city, but he had no desire to look. He was just going through the motions.

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