resigned - Story 118505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through untangling the garden hose when the bark came. He didn’t even need to look. He knew. That blasted beagle. He let out a long, slow breath. The knot in his stomach tightened.

He glanced at his watch. Dinner would be ruined. Again. He just wanted to eat in peace for once.

He considered banging on the neighbor's door, yelling. He imagined the arguments, the hurt feelings. Not worth it. Not anymore. He dropped the hose. The struggle to get the water back on had been exhausting.

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