resigned - Story 118360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at a discarded box with the toe of his shoe. The attic was a cavern of forgotten things, the air heavy with the scent of time and regret. It wasn’t the first time he found this type of mess, and it wouldn't be the last. He knew the job that lay ahead of him.

An old record player sat in the corner, covered in dust. He walked toward it, and then stopped. He turned and walked away. He knew what he had to do. But he didn't want to.

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