resigned - Story 118872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain slicked the cobblestones outside the cafe. Inside, Liam saw *Concrete Jungle* – his photographic series of decaying urban landscapes – plastered across the walls. A small, blurry photo, almost a joke, was attributed to him. He’d never even considered showing his work. He’d always just done it. To cope. He rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling a dull ache behind his eyes. Another day, another wave of…nothingness. He’d just have a coffee, he decided. Black, as always.

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