resigned - Story 118978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paint on the porch was peeling, a reflection of the state of the house and, perhaps, of him. Alex felt the usual heaviness. The same, every day.

The doorbell rang. It was Mr. Thompson, the kind but overly enthusiastic man from down the street. The plea: a space for some zucchini.

He opened the door and offered a weak smile. "Go for it," he said, the words falling flat, as expected.

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