resigned - Story 118202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spot where the old Ford had been. Dust motes danced in the air, undisturbed by the familiar hum of the engine. A dull ache settled in his chest, a weight he'd grown accustomed to carrying. The tow truck driver hadn't even looked him in the eye. Just a quick glance at the expired registration and a shrug. He reached for his phone, already knowing the automated voice of the impound lot would greet him. He sighed and began the walk to the bus stop.

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