resigned - Story 118710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous click-clack of keyboards filled the open-plan office. Carol, head down, stared at the endless spreadsheet. The numbers blurred. The day was dragging. The future was a vast, unknown expanse, and she felt completely lost in the face of it.

Then, from the other end of the aisle, she heard the marketing guy, Kevin, enthusing. He was sharing stories with a newer employee.

"And remember those bonfires at Camp Star Lake?"

She looked up. A vague memory of campfires flickered. "Camp Star Lake?" she murmured, the question barely a breath.

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