resigned - Story 118290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was sitting at his kitchen table, staring at a half-eaten bowl of cereal. The request from Susan Williams. He knew the drill.

He remembered the endless hours of being made fun of, the feeling of being relentlessly targeted. He could feel it again, the familiar ache of insecurity. But it was just a fleeting sensation.

He poked at the cereal with his spoon. The milk had gone soggy. He clicked 'accept'. What did any of it even matter anymore?

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