resigned - Story 118217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs spread out on the table captured moments of their youth. "Look at this one! That trip to the amusement park!" Daniel exclaimed, pointing at a photo of a laughing group of friends. Mark remained silent, his gaze fixed on the image.

Daniel described the roller coaster rides, the cotton candy, the carefree joy. Mark felt a hollow echo in his chest.

The amusement park had felt like a suffocating cage. He remembered the long lines, the heat, the constant noise. He had been overwhelmed, wanting only to escape the manufactured excitement. The photo felt distant, like a souvenir from someone else's life. He pushed it away, his hand falling into his lap, palms 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