resigned - Story 118196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the school newsletter. Mr. Fitzwilliam. The name leaped out. His blood ran cold. He hadn't thought about that man in years, the one who saw him as disruptive, the one who'd labeled him a troublemaker. The one who had broken his spirit. His son, Ben, was excited. His father was not.

He felt the familiar pressure in his chest, a tightening he'd thought he’d escaped. The world had moved on, but not for him. He imagined the criticisms, the disapproving looks, the feeling of being perpetually wrong. He went to sit on the couch, watching the evening news. He didn't want to talk, he just wanted the day to end.

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