resigned - Story 118570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The candles on the cake flickered, casting long shadows across Ethan’s empty dining room. He had been planning a murder mystery party for months, only to learn that Liam had scheduled a video game tournament on the same day.

He blew out the candles, one by one, a small puff of smoke rising into the air. The scent of burnt sugar filled the room, a sickly sweet reminder of unrealized dreams. The party was not the point anymore.

He sat back in his chair, the silence pressing in around him. He knew he'd cancel, that he'd give in, as he always did. The feeling was a heavy blanket, enveloping him. The party felt like an impossible idea.

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