resigned - Story 118199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer was on the fridge, a splash of color against the drab enamel. "Mr. Olsen," it announced. The name hung in the air, heavy with associations. He remembered the boring lectures, the endless homework assignments, the feeling of utter boredom. His son, Sam, was grinning, showing him the flyer.

He slumped into a chair at the kitchen table, his shoulders rounding. He pictured Sam, enduring the same tedious lessons, the same uninspired teaching. He knew he'd have to pretend to be enthusiastic. The cycle continued, a monotonous rhythm of repetition and routine.

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