resigned - Story 118626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known, somehow. John had known Mr. Evans, his physics teacher, would eventually discover his online presence. And now, the notification. He let out a long breath, and felt a strange calm wash over him. It was a kind of acceptance, an acknowledgement of the inevitable. He clicked over to his teacher’s profile, and saw pictures of complex equations and diagrams. He then scrolled through his own feed, seeing pictures of friends and family. A faint smile flickered across his lips, and then faded as he shut off his phone.

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