resigned - Story 118864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway was filled with the usual cacophony of chattering students and slamming lockers, a sound that usually grated on Mr. Davies’ nerves. Today, he hardly noticed it. He was lost in the dull repetition of the day.

A box arrived at his door, addressed in the careful, precise handwriting of a student from years past, now at a prestigious college. He wasn't expecting anything. He rarely did.

He opened it to find a selection of his favorite teas. A small card read, "Thank you for teaching me to appreciate the small things, Mr. Davies." He felt a strange warmth spread through him, something he hadn’t felt in a very long time.

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