resigned - Story 118349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut grass and impending rain filled the air. Henry wandered the yard sale, his hands shoved in his pockets. Everything felt… pointless. A parade of unwanted items, a reflection of a life filled with… what?

He ambled past a table teeming with old toys and forgotten relics. Then he stopped. The bear. He recognized the missing ear, the patched seam. A wave of… nothing… washed over him.

“Five bucks,” the seller said, his voice flat. Henry shrugged, fished out the money, and then he just stood there for a moment, holding the bear. What else could he do?

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