resigned - Story 118928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling train station felt like a cage to David. The noise, the crowds, the constant movement – all amplified his internal unrest. He was perpetually tired, always feeling like he was dragging himself along. The weekly injections, the endless doctor visits, all felt futile.

He’d missed his train again, he leaned against a pillar. He knew he'd be late for his next appointment, and the doctor would be annoyed. He ran his hand over his face.

He looked over and saw a man with the same defeated air as his, clutching a medical file. The man met his gaze and nodded, a shared recognition.

David already knew. They were both in the same prison.

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