resigned - Story 118768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of freshly turned earth. He saw the gaping hole where the tree had been, a void in the familiar landscape. He had nurtured it, protected it. But there was nothing he could do.

He bent to the ground, tracing the circle with his finger. The space was bare, waiting. The world kept moving, regardless. He straightened slowly, his back protesting, and started walking back towards his car.

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