resigned - Story 118647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke during lunchtime, causing the usual commotion. But for John, it was just another iteration of the same story. He watched the others with a detached amusement, their frantic chatter echoing in his ears. He wasn’t surprised. He hadn't been for a long time.

He took a bite of his sandwich, the taste of it bland and uninteresting. He wasn't hungry, he realised. He wasn't anything. The emotions that others were clearly showing, he wasn’t feeling. He’d seen the writing on the wall for months.

He slowly chewed, swallowing each bite mechanically. The future, with all its uncertainties, felt like a distant, irrelevant landscape. He'd done this before, seen it happen. He’d start looking for a job soon, he supposed. But he made no immediate moves, no immediate plans.

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