resigned - Story 118339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew before he even got there. The neon lights of "Luigi's Pizzeria" were all dark. It had been his go-to place for Friday night with his son. He remembered bringing his little boy there for the first time, to share a pizza.

He parked and got out of the car. The lock on the door looked new. He stood there for a long moment, staring at the closed building. The silence was absolute.

He turned and went back to his car. The drive home was quiet. He didn't turn on the radio. He just drove.

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