resigned - Story 118600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The physical sensation was odd: a lightness, a disconnect. He looked down at the rejection letter, the words blurring before his eyes. It was over. He had dreamed, he had strived, he had failed.

He opened his laptop, and stared at the blank page in his word processor. There was nothing. He could not write. He had no more words. He closed the laptop.

He walked over to the closet, pulled down his coat. The day was drawing to a close. He felt compelled to step outside.

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