resigned - Story 118314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd found the flashcards tucked beneath the mattress. The ones with the carefully written phrases in his mother tongue. He traced the smooth, glossy surface of the card, the image of a smiling child staring back at him. His fingers felt heavy. The house was quiet, the only sound the rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall.

He heard her footsteps approaching. He didn’t look up.

“I… I thought it might be nice,” she said, her voice small. He didn't answer. He just held the flashcard, the weight of the moment pressing down on him. The air seemed thin. He knew this road. It was a familiar descent.

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