resigned - Story 118442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always known, deep down. David glanced at the rumpled sheets of his bed, the book still lying on his pillow. He had a sudden urge to just lie down. His stomach clenched with a familiar ache. The secret felt like a lead weight pressing into his sternum.

He walked over to the shared desk, a slow, deliberate movement. His roommate, Ben, was pretending to be engrossed in a video game, headphones on. David didn't even bother to glance at the screen. What was there to say?

"Coffee's ready," he announced flatly, turning and leaving the room. The door shut with a soft click.

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