resigned - Story 118226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you find them?" his sister asked, her voice tinged with a hint of what he assumed was pity. He nodded, gesturing towards the overflowing cardboard boxes spilling out from the spare bedroom closet. He’d known they were there. He was prepared. Or at least, he thought he was.

He’d always known his mother was a keeper. Keeper of everything. Keeper of memories. Keeper of… him.

He walked over to the boxes, his steps slow and deliberate. He picked up a drawing of a stick figure family, the colors faded and slightly smudged. The small details of the past seemed suddenly insignificant.

"What now?" his sister prompted. He shrugged, the gesture devoid of energy. "I guess we start."

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