resigned - Story 118496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, watching children play, the laughter a distant sound. His innovative anti-gravity boots, a project that had consumed his every waking moment for the past five years, were now gathering dust in his garage, out-patented. The sun felt warm on his face, but he felt a bone-deep chill. He pulled his jacket tighter, as if trying to ward off a cold that had burrowed deep within. He watched the children run, and an unfamiliar quietness settled over him.

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