resigned - Story 118620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't written a speech. He hadn't even thought about it until he'd been standing there, feeling the pressure. He took a breath, the air seemed thick, the room stifling.

They were all staring at him. He saw his mother's hopeful look, and the knowledge of disappointing her weighed on him. The truth felt like a heavy thing. He could not find the right words, the proper words.

He opened his mouth. He could make out no words, just a meaningless jumble. He sat back down. His father smiled and began to speak. He was glad to be done.

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