resigned - Story 118209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, the breeze rustling his hair. He hadn’t expected this, not exactly. But the feeling... the pervasive, heavy feeling... was familiar. The tow truck was long gone, the evidence erased, but the weight remained. It was a weight he knew he would carry, a burden he knew would not be easily lifted. He went inside and sat down at the table, staring at the mail that had piled up.

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