resigned - Story 118994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on his laptop while he was procrastinating on a work project, a project he had little interest in. The subject: "Student Spotlight: A Winning Essay!" He knew what was coming. He'd seen it before with friends. He knew what they’d say about his essay, and how it had shaped their lives, but it didn't feel like a victory.

He clicked the link with a deliberate slowness. The website’s layout was cheerful, filled with smiling faces and optimistic slogans. He found his essay, staring back at him. The words, once so carefully chosen, now seemed flimsy, lacking weight. He shut his laptop. The project could wait, and so could the world.

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