resigned - Story 118966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What’s this, then?” I asked, holding up the list I’d found tucked in Leo’s desk drawer. His face, usually so expressive, was blank. He shrugged, avoiding my eyes. “Oh, just some old thing.”

The first entry read: “Learn to play the guitar.” Followed by: “Travel across Europe.” And then: “Find someone to love.” I felt a strange detachment, a sense of having arrived at a destination I didn't want to visit. The air in the room felt thick, like it was made of syrup.

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