resigned - Story 118429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the invitation in his hand, feeling the glossy paper between his fingers. It was a tangible object, a physical manifestation of a feeling he couldn’t quite name. He tossed it onto the desk. The desk was already a mess of papers and various half-finished projects. He hadn't touched any of them in days.

He looked out the window. The sky was overcast, mirroring his mood. He had the distinct sense that he should do something.

He did nothing.

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