resigned - Story 118540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what now?" he asked the admissions officer, the question hanging in the air. The polite smile the woman offered felt brittle, insincere. He looked around the pristine office, the framed diplomas on the wall, the air conditioning humming. He felt… adrift. The future he had envisioned, the one he had meticulously planned, was no longer attainable. He took a deep breath, the air tasting thin, unsatisfying. He knew he'd have to figure something out, but the thought of it filled him with a weariness that went down to his toes.

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