resigned - Story 118280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new job was in a different building across town. The drive, a daily reminder. He pulled into the parking lot, the tires crunching on the gravel. He was late.

He tried to concentrate on the presentations, but his mind drifted. He was told he was now part of a team. He didn't feel like a team player. He didn't feel anything, really.

He watched his colleagues. They seemed happy, or at least, busy. He was both, but not in a way that he liked. He felt the weight of the tasks laid out before him, each one a mountain he wasn't sure he could climb. He wasn't sure he wanted to.

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