resigned - Story 118169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chatter of the other guests felt like a physical pressure on Ben. He’d stood on the porch for ten minutes before entering. He knew he didn't want to come. He knew this would happen. Still, he was here. He could feel it in his stomach. The inevitable moment.

He focused on the food, trying to analyze each component, trying to take his mind elsewhere. He wanted to go home. He didn't want to stay. The party was just beginning, but he felt like he’d already been there for hours.

And then he saw her. He had a brief rush of something, he couldn’t place the feeling. He looked away, focusing instead on a server carrying a tray of hors d’oeuvres. He would avoid her. He would be cordial. He would be gone as soon as he could.

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