resigned - Story 118967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, worn notebook was wedged between the mattress and the bed frame. He found it during a cleaning, a tedious undertaking he undertook with no enthusiasm. The handwriting was her own, scratchy and fast. He sat on the floor, the notebook open on his lap.

“Write a book.” “Learn to speak Swahili.” “See the pyramids.” He ran his fingers along the paper, a coldness spreading through him. He hadn’t known. He didn't know anything, it seemed.

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