resigned - Story 118418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was silent, the air thick with the scent of old paper and dust. Liam found the wallet tucked inside a discarded copy of "Moby Dick." He opened it, his heart giving a small jolt when he saw the wad of cash.

He could buy the things he had always wanted. He could travel. He could finally... He stopped himself. The world, like the library, held a silent, dull, hopelessness, He couldn't shake that feeling.

He closed the wallet and then, on a whim, returned it to the book. He then placed the book back on the shelf, where someone else might find it. He walked away, not even bothering to look back.

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