resigned - Story 118490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the orange cones and the yellow tape. The house had already been partially fenced off. This morning, he got out of his car and stopped to look at the place he grew up. He knew he should feel something. He knew he should be furious.

He recalled his mother's garden, his father's workshop. Everything felt distant, like memories on a screen. He remembered feeling so sure that he would always be okay. He glanced at the house one last time, turned around, and walked away. The noise was already starting.

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