resigned - Story 118589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, the metal groaning with each floor. He was heading to a meeting, a job he wasn't happy about. The canned music started, and he tensed. The opening bars. His song, but rewritten, changed, with different lyrics. The words about love and loss became about selling widgets.

He stared at the numbers above the elevator door as they lit up. He was numb, his mind a blank slate. When the doors opened, he stepped out, and walked away, not toward the conference room.

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