resigned - Story 118689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the well-worn chess set. He had taught his son, Daniel, everything he knew, the strategies, the tactics, the history of the game. Now, Daniel was a better player. He sat across from his son, the board between them, the pieces silent sentinels. He felt no excitement for the coming match. He played, but with a vacant focus, the moves automatic, the outcome inconsequential. He watched his son's focused brow and felt a strange pang.

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