resigned - Story 118619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation built as they called his name. Daniel walked to the podium, his legs heavy, each step an effort. He scanned the crowd, a sea of unfamiliar faces. His father, smiling. His mother, her eyes sparkling.

He began the speech. He’d memorized every word, his voice steady, his tone measured. But the words felt hollow. The emotions they expressed were foreign to him.

He finished, and the applause felt distant, muffled. He returned to his seat, a sense of weary relief washing over him. The performance was over. The charade complete.

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