resigned - Story 118207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint of the driveway seemed to mock him. The note was probably tucked under the windshield wiper, a passive-aggressive indictment. He’d seen the signs, of course. The flashing lights of the tow truck in the distance. He had simply chosen not to run out. There was nothing he could do. He’d been through this before. He turned his back on the empty space, heading inside to find something, anything, to distract him.

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