resigned - Story 118352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hefted the flashlight, the beam cutting through the gloom. Another mess. That’s what the previous tenants always left. The house itself had been a steal, practically abandoned, but dealing with what they left behind was always a burden. He'd find a box or a bag, or something else of theirs, tucked away somewhere.

A child’s rocking horse, missing one ear, dominated the far corner. Its painted eyes stared blankly. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture meant to clear his mind, but instead, it felt like it simply re-arranged the dust.

“Might as well,” he muttered, his voice echoing in the rafters. He approached the horse.

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