resigned - Story 118504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on his shoulders as he walked. He paused at the fence, arms hanging limp. He knew what he would find. And there it was. A fluffy white cloud, doing what it always did: digging.

He noticed the chipped paint, the sagging gate. He was supposed to fix it last weekend, or the one before. The to-do list was endless. He just didn't want to do it.

He thought, for a split second, of just letting the dog stay.

He didn't.

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