resigned - Story 118129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant beeping of text messages, each one a reminder of the unmet obligation, only served to amplify the frustration. "Delayed." David stared blankly at the screen. The job interview. He'd pinned all his hopes on this opportunity, spent weeks preparing. Now, everything was off.

He felt a strange numbness creeping over him, a detachment from the situation. He closed his eyes, the lights of the terminal flickering behind his eyelids. He wanted to sleep. He was no longer trying to calculate alternative routes. The feeling was a profound weariness, a surrender to the inevitable.

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