resigned - Story 118814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. He’d barely touched his breakfast, the food sitting heavy in his stomach. The drive here had been a blur, the passing scenery a meaningless distraction. This was another mountain to climb, another obstacle to overcome. He was ready to stop trying.

He was ushered into the office. The therapist, a woman with salt-and-pepper hair, adjusted her glasses and looked up. It was Brenda, the girl who used to steal his lunch money and call him names.

"Mr. Evans?" she asked, her voice neutral. A hollow laugh escaped him. Here we go, he thought.

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