resigned - Story 118868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning announcements crackled over the loudspeaker, a sound that once thrilled Mr. Thompson. Now, it just felt like another burden. Another day. Another task. The weight of his responsibilities always seemed to get heavier.

A small bouquet of flowers arrived at the front desk, directed to him. He didn’t recognize the name on the card. He was surprised anyone had noticed him.

The card simply read, "Thanks for caring, Mr. Thompson." He put the flowers in a vase, the bright colors a small splash of joy in his otherwise grey existence. He felt slightly less weighed down.

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