resigned - Story 118832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the screen, the numbers on the online banking page blurring. He ran a hand over his tired eyes, the faint sting a small comfort. The air in the study felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking in protest.

Twenty-five thousand dollars. Enough for a down payment, a new car, a life… not with him, apparently. He thought of the weekend trips they took, the careful budgeting they'd done. A bitter laugh escaped his lips, a dry, rattling sound.

He closed the laptop, the screen going black, reflecting his own weary face. The fight had gone out of him, leaving only a hollow ache. He’d make dinner. What else was there?

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